[pulseaudio-discuss] Issue with multiple hdmi codecs in radeonhd, hacked to work

[John Ettedgui]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:52 AM, John Ettedgui <john.ettedgui at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just changed my RadeonHD 4670 for a 7870, and now when I type "aplay
> -l"  I get many HDMI codecs instead of just one like for the previous card.
>
> I think this confuses PulseAudio and I get no sound... (with previous card
> it worked all fine).
>
>
>
> When I type "aplay -L" I get one more codec that I can see it in the
> pavucontrol profile (not sure which one as the names are irrelevant)
>
>
> if in default.pa I specify the alsa sink device=hw:0,3 directly, I do get
> sound, but then in pavucontrol I do not get the advanced sub-menu anymore
> which makes me think something is not working properly...
>
> For now I have settled on this hack instead:
>
>
> I changed the extra-hdmi.conf in
> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets file to :
>
> [Mapping hdmi-surround-extra0]
> description = Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 0)
> device-strings = hdmi:%f,0
> paths-output = hdmi-output-0
> channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
> priority = 1
> direction = output
>
> [Mapping hdmi-surround-extra3]
> description = Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3)
> device-strings = hdmi:%f,0
> paths-output = hdmi-output-3
> channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
> priority = 1
> direction = output
>
> I only need one of these two, somehow they both work...
>
> Now everything works for me, but since it's not out of the box, I am
> guessing there might be something out there to fix.
>
>
> Please keep me on the thread, I'm not in the ML.
>
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
Hello,

I just wanted to say, now it works just fine with standard pulse.
Out of the various profiles it tells me correctly which ones are unplugged,
and the one that isn't works just fine.
I am not sure what exactly fixed it as I hadn't tried in a while... but
anyway, thanks!
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