I've been messing with various builds from 12.04 (LTS) to 12.10 to 13.04 (and back and forth, doing fresh installs each time from a usb drive, wiping the old partitions off of my disk drive).

I like features of 13.04, but am having major issues not being able to get sound out of my hdmi interface (since I use this PC exclusively as an HTPC).

I tried:

• Going to the ALSA Launchpad, download the package: oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms* for my distribution (raring), installed it, and rebooted.




• Going to the Mainline ubuntu kernels, downloaded version 3.8.8, which is supposed to have a fix for this; downloaded the latest version of the kernels for my architecture (amd64, all), installed it, and rebooted.

Through some of my prior runs, I've done various other things including alsa force-reloads, etc. Nothing seems to get it all working.

Here's as much information as I can think of that I know of that would be relevant. If anyone can provide me with help to this issue, it would be much appreciated.

$ uname -s && uname -r && uname -v && uname -p && uname -i && uname -o

Linux

3.8.8-030808-generic

#201304170248 SMP Wed Apr 17 06:49:45 UTC 2013

x86_64

x86_64

GNU/Linux

$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: 92HD73E1X5 Analog [92HD73E1X5 Analog]

  Subdevices: 0/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: 92HD73E1X5 Digital [92HD73E1X5 Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)

00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev c4)

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z75 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition]

01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 08)

I ran alsamixer under sudo, and I saw that S/PDIF was [MM] (muted), but I unmuted it. The issue still persists.

Running something like:

$ speaker-test -c 2 -r 48000 -D hw:0,1

For each of the devices from aplay -l gives me valid output but no sound for any device. for 0,1, specifically, I get the following error: Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy. The rest don't return an error, but just don't output any sound.

In response to the question about what drivers I am using, I haven't done anything special in regards to drivers, so I am using standard Radeon drivers. Here is the output of lshw -class sound:

$ sudo lshw -class sound

  *-multimedia            

       description: Audio device

       product: Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]

       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI

       physical id: 0.1

       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1

       version: 00

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list

       configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0

       resources: irq:46 memory:f7e60000-f7e63fff

  *-multimedia

       description: Audio device

       product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller

       vendor: Intel Corporation

       physical id: 1b

       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0

       version: 04

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list

       configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0

       resources: irq:44 memory:f7f10000-f7f13fff

Thanks.