[CentOS] No sound over HDMI using nvidia graphics card

C. L. Martinez

carlopmart at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 10:29:50 UTC 2012


Hi all,

 I have installed a centos 6.2 x86_64 box to use as a multimedia center.
All works ok, except sound over hdmi using nvidia graphics card. My lspci
output:

 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge
(ext gfx port 0)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge
(PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA
Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0
Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI
Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0
Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI
Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE
Controller (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host
controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:16.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0
Controller
00:16.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI
Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link
Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]
(rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller
(rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit
Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)

Under gnome control panel, all seems ok: under sound preferences, sound
output is configured to use HDMI channel.

I am using nvidia drivers from elrepo.org (nvidia-x11-drv-290.10
and kmod-nvidia-290.10). Somebody knows where can I find some doc to
resolve this? Any idea?

Thanks



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