[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#814763: HDMI sound not working

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at mega-nerd.com> [2016-02-16 16:15 +1100]:

> Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> > Thats ok.
> > 
> > What tells:
> > 
> > # aplay -l
> 
> With the laptop displaying video over HDMI:
> 
>     $ aplay -l
>     **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>     card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3260 Analog [ALC3260 Analog]
>       Subdevices: 1/1
>       Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>     card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>       Subdevices: 1/1
>       Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>     card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
>       Subdevices: 1/1
>       Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Please try the following:

$ mv $HOME/.asoundrc $HOME/.asoundrc.save
$ cat <<EOF > $HOME/.asoundrc
defaults.pcm.!device 3
defaults.ctl.!device 3
EOF

As root:

# service alsa-utils restart

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