[pulseaudio-discuss] Configure HDA Intel on a ION audio

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Josu Lazkano at 04/08/09 00:24 did gyre and gimble:
> Hello, I am new on this, I have a little problem with my HTPC sound 
> configuration. I search a lot and I don't have the solution.
> 
> I have a Nvidia ION based HTPC. I have connected with optical to the A/V 
> receiver (Sony STR-DG710). The HD movies with "good" audio sounds great 
> and on the receiver puts "DOLBY DIGITAL 3/2.1", but when I play a MP3 
> file sounds very bad, with noise, and on the receiver puts “PCM 48 kHz“.
> 
> This is my audio configuration:
> 
> $ cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
>                       HDA NVidia at 0xfae78000 irq 20
> 
> 
> $ cat /proc/asound/pcm
> 00-01: ALC662 Digital : ALC662 Digital : playback 1
> 00-00: ALC662 Analog : ALC662 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
> 
> 
> I use Debian Lenny and I installed PulseAudio from official repository. 
> When I run PulseAudio Manager this the configuration:
> 
> 
> http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9110/pantallazopulseaudioman.png 

All of the screenshots indicate that the connection is refused. This 
means your pulseaudio client (paman in this case) cannot speak to the 
pulseaudio daemon.

Chances are the daemon is not running (ps aux | grep pulse).

You can generally debug why it's not running by manually issuing 
"pulseaudio -vvv" and looking at the errors returned.

You can have a look through the:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting
page but I've not updated it for a while and it's missing loads of 
common stuff that could go wrong.

I meant to get it updated over the past weekend but sadly spent the time 
doing other stuff :s

Col
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