Weird sound issues Fedora 13 - SB Xtreme Audio + ATi HD4870 HDMI

[petsoukos]

Hi there,

I've followed some instructions that I've found searching this forum and what I've concluded was that my audio plays only from the HDMI port of the VGA...

Changing the settings around to use the SoundBlaster card does nothing.

I've installed pavucontrol and setting the HDMI port to profile Off does nothing. When enabled the bar under the levels seems to play music. (It shows activity) But when I send the stream to the Sound Blaster the bar stays 100% and doesn't do anything. (no activity and no sound)

Btw... I can't verify that the HDMI port actually plays out audio...

Tanks!

P.S. I'm new to Fedora and linux all together. I've tried Fedora in the past F11 I think but that's all.

The "cat /proc/asound/cards" command produces this:
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbaec000 irq 33
1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xfbbfc000 irq 16

The "/sbin/lsmod | grep -c snd" command produces this: 12

"yum update" has been executed several times without the need to update anything.

[petsoukos]

Anyone ? I need to have some sound...

[AdamW]

It sounds like just a bug with the Creative card...can you follow the steps at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_t...sound_problems and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_t...Audio_problems ? Thanks.

[petsoukos]

I've uninstalled the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio but this didn't do anything.

How can I disable the HDMI output? It seems that it selects that as default.

---------- Post added at 08:44 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 04:54 PM CDT ----------

lspci gives this output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 12)
00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 12)
00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 12)
00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 12)
00:14.3 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers (rev 12)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV770 [Radeon HD 4870]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc HD48x0 audio
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG PCI to PCIe Bridge
05:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
06:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
06:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
08:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
08:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
09:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
09:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0)

I've found this list also and it seems my card is not supported...
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...-Creative_Labs

[AdamW]

that was my initial guess - we generally have trouble with new Creative cards - but if it shows up in pavucontrol / gnome-sound-properties, it must be supported on _some_ level.

The entry on the wiki is somewhat ambiguous - it just says "[ ] supported [ ] not supported ". It reads like someone didn't fill in a template entirely correctly.

Disabling the HDMI output shouldn't really be a problem, when you tried to send a stream to the Creative card with pavucontrol, that was a good test. The HDMI output on the video card wouldn't be able to get in the way of that.

I suspect that snd-hda-intel does support the card to some extent, but doesn't work exactly correctly, hence my suggestion to file a bug report, after going through the various debugging steps in those pages.

[petsoukos]

I've installed my old card (Audigy 2 ZS) and with pavucontrol I've disabled the X-Fi and HDMI output and now I can enjoy sound with linux.

No on to RT2500 Wireless and the extremely slow download rates...