18 May
2016
18 May
'16
8:49 a.m.
Nick Koretsky composed on 2016-05-18 09:59 (UTC+0300):
On Wed, 18 May 2016 01:09:19 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
> Via manual selection in VLC, which offers about
20+ devices to choose
> from, sound via HDMI works. However, system sounds and Youtube in FF only
> work via the analog pin jack. TDE control center makes no HDMI device
> offering. Anyone here know the secret to making HDMI default sound source
> everywhere?
> alsa-info.sh output:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Sound/alsa-info.txt-d9stretch-a88x-easyst
Well, according to this HDMI is card 0 in alsa, so
unless you
have /etc/asound.conf that changes it it should be alsa default.
no such file /etc/asound.conf
But... it says you have pulseaudio installed, and
unless you have taken
effort to setup it in a sane way it is probably in an "alsa takeover" mode
(why maintainers of ALL distribution do this by default is a greatest
mystery of 21-st century, i suspect some vicious conspiracy). This means
all apps use pulse even if you instruct them to use alsa, so you have to
select default card in pulse (pavucontrol) instead. Or disable "alsa
takeover" mode in pulse.
pavucontrol command not found
Lacking instruction for "takeover" mode manipulation, I purged pulseaudio*.
That killed system and Youtube sounds, but left 'aplay -vv -Dhdmi:0,0
foo.wav' and VLC working.
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