Bug 712569

Description of problem:
I expected to be able to use the HDMI output to a TV to play video content including audio. The TV supports audio through HDMI and the chipset on the netbook seems to; there is a snd_hda_codec_hdmi module loaded. Nevertheless, the audio channel is not available to be selected in gnome mixer or pavucontrol. I believe there are sound devices but the system software is not recognising them or using them.

[root@newt modprobe.d]# ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       60 Jun 11 07:23 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 Jun 11 07:23 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Jun 11 07:23 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Jun 11 07:23 hwC0D3
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Jun 11 10:20 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Jun 11 10:20 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Jun 11 07:24 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  1 Jun 11 07:23 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jun 11 07:23 timer

[root@newt modprobe.d]# lsmod|grep codec
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     20390  1 
snd_hda_codec_idt      47949  1 
snd_hda_codec          69915  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4986  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                63642  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd                    48042  13 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15.i686
pulseaudio-0.9.22-5.fc15.i686

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect HDMI TV
2.open Gnome sound settings or pavucontrol
3.note that only limited devices are available (no HDMI digital sound)
  
Actual results:
No sound on TV; no option to configure sound on TV

Expected results:
Sound able to be configured to be output on TV

Additional info:
I hope this device (HP Mini 311c-1101SA Nvidia MCP79 based (ION) netbook) is able to output sound via the HDMI port but I am not certain of it.