Comments on: Working: HDMI Audio on ATI Graphics Card

By: Benjie

Benjie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:47:14 +0000

Excellent work, Trab, keep it up! Do you have a blog/twitter/etc that I can follow?

By: Trab

Trab — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:30:03 +0000

found a way to do it:
instead of commenting out this part:
Comment out the module-hal-detect section (around lines 40-47):

#### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
#.ifexists module-hal-detect.so
#load-module module-hal-detect
#.else
#### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
#### lack HAL support)
#load-module module-detect
#.endif

leave it.

then, at the bottom, you have to play around with this line:
set-default-sink output

basically, if you leave it commented, it will continue to use sound card. if you don’t comment it, it will use HDMI.

this is part 1 of my problem. i don’t wanna have to restart pulse each time, but I know that you have to have both HDMI AND “soundcard” enabled, to do any kind of switching.

cheers.

By: Benjie

Benjie — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:18:34 +0000

I’d like to know that too… let me know if you figure it out! Thanks for letting me know that you found this useful!

Cheers,

Benjie.

By: Trab

Trab — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:57:25 +0000

Hello,

I was able to get this to work to output sound through my ATI graphics card using HDMI (and pulseaudio, because ALSA could already do this)

What I would like to do is be able to do one of two things:

1) Switch between using HDMI and my other sound card, which is plugged into my headphones
2) Have it output to BOTH HDMI and my other sound card, then I can just mute the HDMI speakers when I need

Any ideas?

thanks,
Trab