Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 591582
[NV94] No sound from HDMI audio
Last modified: 2013-02-15 08:56:43 EST
Description of problem: I'm not sure if HDMI Audio is already supposed to work with xorg-x11-drv-nouveau or if the functionality is actually in the kernel. From user space everything looks OK: ALSA sees the HDMI audio device, PulseAudio shows it, nothing is muted, clients can send data to it and it seems to be processed correctly (timing feedback looks OK), the amplifier shows that HDMI audio is active. But in the end there is no audio coming out :-( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-12.fc13.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-5.20100423git13c1043.fc13.x86_64 libdrm-2.4.20-1.fc13.x86_64 mesa-libGL-7.8.1-6.fc13.x86_64 alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: always Additional info: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9800M GTS] [10de:062c] (rev a1) $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** ... card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ... $ aplay -L ... hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, NVIDIA HDMI HDMI Audio Output $ pactl list ... Sink #0 State: SUSPENDED Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo Description: Internal Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958) Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 4 Mute: no Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% 0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 100% 0.00 dB Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec Flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: alsa.resolution_bits = "16" device.api = "alsa" device.class = "sound" alsa.class = "generic" alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" alsa.name = "ALC662 rev1 Digital" alsa.id = "ALC662 rev1 Digital" alsa.subdevice = "0" alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" alsa.device = "1" alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel" alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xf4600000 irq 33" alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0" sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0" device.bus = "pci" device.vendor.id = "8086" device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation" device.product.id = "293e" device.product.name = "82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller" device.form_factor = "internal" device.string = "iec958:0" device.buffering.buffer_size = "352768" device.buffering.fragment_size = "176384" device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" device.profile.name = "iec958-stereo" device.profile.description = "Digital Stereo (IEC958)" device.description = "Internal Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)" alsa.mixer_name = "Nvidia MCP78 HDMI" alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0662,15580860,00100101 HDA:10573055,00305557,00100900 HDA:10de0005,10de0101,00100000" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" ... Profiles: ... output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 5400) output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 5460) ...
Created attachment 413464 [details] dmesg logfile
Created attachment 413465 [details] X server logfile
Hey, thanks for the report. Unfortunately it's not expected to work right now, no-one's even looked at what's required to support it as far as I know. I guess it'd be handy to be able to see kmmio traces of the binary driver initialising HDMI audio, and one of it initialising a display *without* HDMI audio for comparison. I know you've done this before, but the link is http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace, for reference :)
Created attachment 413706 [details] mmiotrace for HDMI audio Here is what I got so far: - nvidia 195.36.24 driver works (AFAIR the last time I tried it didn't correctly work on this HW) - HDMI audio works with nvidia, so nothing else is broken - unfortunately both devices with HDMI input (amplifier, TV) support HDMI audio, so I can't generate a trace without HDMI audio After installing kernel-debug and compiling the corresponding nvidia debug kernel module I was able to take the attached trace, following the instructions in mmiotrace.txt. I hope this gives you at least some information.
FYI: kernel 2.6.34 added NVIDIA HDMI support in ALSA: <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=25045705d4053925a617ed71c5e4b6888e468765> But guessing from the code this doesn't apply for my chip, because it is only for NVIDIA HW with built-in HDMI audio codec (GT21x) and not for NVIDIA HW with SPDIF/HDMI input for HDMI Audio which is fed by the Intel HDA codec (an educated guess on my part).
Still doesn't work for F14. Tested with kernel-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.
Yeah this is still expected. I have patches in progress that have been tested and working on both the boards with SPDIF passthrough, and the boards with an onboard codec. There's still some work to be done, and waiting on some core DRM changes to hit upstream before I'm able to commit them. Once it's available, I'll take a shot a backporting them to F14.
Retested with F15 Beta. Still doesn't work. Version information: kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.1-14.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15.x86_64 libdrm-2.4.25-1.fc15.x86_64 mesa-libGL-7.11-0.9.20110509.0.fc15.x86_64 alsa-lib-1.0.24-2.fc15.x86_64
Code still missing in nouveau DRM driver. Moving to F16. HDMI Audio support has been added in git HEAD for NVA3:NVD9 though.
Notice the "nouveau.audio=1" at the end of the core team. The result is unchanged: there is sound
The same issue with geForce 9400M on Acer Aspire. Tried to play audio via HDMI in Fedora 18 alpha.
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