This is what I have to get hdmi audio out on my zotac ion board
in the .asoundrc of the acoount I am playing audio from I put

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "hdmi"
}

without that I get no sound from hdmi

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Matt Harrison
<iwasinnamuknow@genestate.com>wrote:

> I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald
> and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset.
>
> I've made tiny bits of progress here and there which (reading many many
> MANY forum posts) should mean it is working, but no.
>
> Is there anyone here who has managed this? someone who would be willing to
> go through some things with me and get this working.
>
> The HDMI output shows up fine in "aplay -l" and "aplay -L", I can use
> speaker-test or aplay on the card/device with no errors. I've tried
> muting/unmuting everything in alsamixer (several analog related channels
> plus 3 s/pdifs).
>
> Analog audio works without problems but no matter what I try I cannot get
> HDMI working.
>
> I would be so grateful if someone could help, I'm literally about to throw
> it all out of the window thanks to all these smug ubuntu people saying how
> easy it was to get working :P
>
> Many thanks
>
> Matt
>
>


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