Only S/PDIF sound output is available.
by bifferos from LinuxQuestions.org on (#521W7)
I've just installed today the latest Linux Mint XFCE on a fairly old PC.
Unfortunately sound output doesn't work and there's no option in pavucontrol to select anything other than S/PDIF.
The motherboard has HDMI sound and also on-board sound (with S/PDIF as one output option of course).
When I ran Slackware on the same PC I could use the KDE applet: Settings for the Phonon multimedia framework to select from a number of different sound outputs, including hdmi.
I also tried OpenSUSE on the same hardware, and that allowed me to go to driver settings and 'configure' other sound devices. Once I'd done that I could use on-board (but not HDMI) sound.
lspci, and aplay --list-devices does show the other devices, also alsamixer (with F6) lets me set the levels. How do I tell pavucontrol about this and get the firefox, Kodi and so on to use the other on-board analogue output?
thanks!
Unfortunately sound output doesn't work and there's no option in pavucontrol to select anything other than S/PDIF.
The motherboard has HDMI sound and also on-board sound (with S/PDIF as one output option of course).
When I ran Slackware on the same PC I could use the KDE applet: Settings for the Phonon multimedia framework to select from a number of different sound outputs, including hdmi.
I also tried OpenSUSE on the same hardware, and that allowed me to go to driver settings and 'configure' other sound devices. Once I'd done that I could use on-board (but not HDMI) sound.
lspci, and aplay --list-devices does show the other devices, also alsamixer (with F6) lets me set the levels. How do I tell pavucontrol about this and get the firefox, Kodi and so on to use the other on-board analogue output?
thanks!