aplay -l says no soundcards found; alsaconf says no supported cords; yet /proc/asound contains cards
- by nimasmi
I am trying to get HDMI output using a Gainward Nvidia 210 512 MB on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
I have upgraded alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils to 1.0.24 by building from source, thanks to this blog post.
Some relevant output...
user@box:~$ lspci | grep Audio
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
01:09.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
01:09.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05)
02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
user@box:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
Compiled on Sep 15 2012 for kernel 2.6.32-42-generic (SMP).
user@box:~$ ls /proc/asound`
card0 cards hwdep NVidia oss seq version
card1 devices modules NVidia_1 pcm timers
user@box:~$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...
user@box:~$ sudo /sbin/alsa-utils start
* Setting up ALSA...
* warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: set_control:1403:
Cannot write control '2:0:0:IEC958 Playback Default:0' : Operation not permitted'...
amixer: Invalid command!
...done.
Any help appreciated.
PS my video card is connected only through the PCI-E slot. I assume there is no extra audio connection required.