Felix Miata wrote: > Via manual selection in VLC, which offers about 20+ devices to choose > from, sound via HDMI works. However, system sounds and Youtube in FF only > work via the analog pin jack. TDE control center makes no HDMI device > offering. Anyone here know the secret to making HDMI default sound source > everywhere? > > Each of the following in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf had no effect: > options snd_hda_intel index=0,1 > options snd_hda_intel index=1,0 > options snd index=0 > options snd index=1 > options snd_hda_intel index=0 > options snd_hda_intel index=1 > > In a similar vein, instructions on > http://superuser.com/questions/626606/how-to-make-alsa-pick-a-preferred-sound-device-automatically > either kept analog sound working, but killed HDMI/VLC sound, or had no > apparent effect. is VLC setup to use HDMI? > > Instructions on http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/HDA_Analyzer > various fail as user. As root, sound doesn't work at all. Doing python > run.py produces nothing that looks helpful, mainly confirming that cmdline > tools already have shown. > > alsa-info.sh output: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Sound/alsa-info.txt-d9stretch-a88x-easyst > Look specific for your cards 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio Controller 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 01) and try disable/remove one of them and see if with only 1 it works Try model=ref for each card - this will disable HDMI (enable=0,1). If msi is not supported - remove the enable_msi=1. options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=ref enable_msi=1 enable=0,1 options snd-hda-intel index=1 model=ref enable_msi=1 enable=0,1 > Various sound related packages installed: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Sound/sndpkgs-d9stretch-easyst.txt Furthermore kernel 4.5 + ALC1150 => https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108301 other links http://www.jafico.co.uk/?p=90 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/14-1-sound-doesn't-work-4175510548/