From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SE5IO-0006F1-UZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:53:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60AC421C059; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A8AE120B for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE251B4006 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:51:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.196 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.196 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.186, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zEFXfB9ggkuZ for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04BE31B4004 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SE5G3-0003Xp-0X for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:50:47 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-188-242.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.188.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:50:46 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-188-242.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:50:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers? Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:50:34 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20120330183457.72baea0f@weird.wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-188-242.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: <20120330183457.72baea0f@weird.wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: ea70a6b0-bd2c-48f2-b64e-f4991c05afe8 X-Archives-Hash: f00a453f0c84f120d9413ef3374e21f3 On 03/30/2012 09:34 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > walt writes: > >> 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek >> HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Lenovo >> Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel >> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel >> >> 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia >> Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 >> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel >> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel > > Probably those are HDMI and 'normal' device. I had similar problems on my > sister's PC. First, thanks to all who replied. All the answers were helpful and the lightbulb is slowly getting brighter :) I finally looked up HDMI on Wikipedia. Software is driven by hardware and this new machine is the only HDMI equipment I've ever used, so I never had any need to understand it before now. Now it's clear to me why there are two different sound devices on this machine -- HDMI is a completely different animal and needs different harware and drivers. So, thanks for clearing that up for me. Maybe someday I'll actually want to use the HDMI hardware for something ;) > My solution was to edit /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, and change > defaults.ctl.card and defaults.pcm.card from 0 to 1. I must have the syntax wrong in my alsa.conf, but I finally edited /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and changed the default values to 1. Now alsamixer comes up with the right mixer displayed, thanks. All apps but audacious still use the wrong mixer/card in spite of the new defaults, though. I'm finally understanding the value of pulseaudio as a side-effect of buying this new computer. Now I'm recompiling everything with the pulse useflag, something I thought I'd never do :/ I think I can use pulse to solve this problem IIUC. Here goes :)