HDMI sound (device not available)

BZZ

Firstly I am aware there are many topics on HDMI sound problems. I have gone over them and tried all methods.
Kodi sees HDMI1 and sound works fine, alsa is unmuted. The actual system menu however only has HDMI0 option and absolutely no sound. I tried editing batocera.conf as well but it did nothing. At this moment in time I am just about to re-install 5.25 legacy. Posting this topic in advance just to be on the safe side and see if anyone has a solution. Thank you.

joinski

BZZ
Could you please list your hardware specs? CPU/GPU etc?
And could you post screenshots of the lists of audio output devices in kodi and in Batocera ES?

yanyan95

BZZ avez-vous plusieurs hdmi0 ?

BZZ

joinski Sorry not able to take any screen shots or photos at the moment. Long story involving actual access to the screen ;-) I have i5-2.8 ghz, gtx 460. I used it in 5.24 with HDMI then moved it to another area and got old VGA screen. Now due to kids being stuck at home I moved it back and after update to 5.25 tried HDMI with no luck. In the mean time I got very old speakers plugged to get the sound out.

yanyan95 No I do not. Kodi lists hdmi0, 1, 2 , 3. Hdmi1 is where the sound works fine in Kodi. In Batocera it only lists Hdmi0. I am aware they do not have to be exactly the same. Hdmi0 has no sound what-so-ever. Alsa is unmuted as well.

I will get screen-shots once I am able unless I figure it out before.

yanyan95

BZZ du coup tu veux te connecter en hdmi ou vga🤔. Chaque hdmi0 est différent lorsque que tu tombe sur la bonne tu dois avoir un son puis rien et tu redémar. Essaye d'envoyer une photo de alsamixer tout est sur 00 et mut désactivé. J'ai pratiquement la même carte que toi 560 ti. Je test la mise à jour en 5.25 tout à l'heure. mais j'ai tjrs était obligé de modifié dans alsamixer. Pour info moi en 5.24 j'ai du son en hdmi mais dans le menu le niveau se met tjrs sur 0.😅 Courage pour le confinement moi mon fils fume batocera!😆

joinski

BZZ

Please take some time and test theese 3 scenarios:

Scenario 1

Get an empty USB-flash drive (you may have one laying around that you can use for testing-purpose?)
Flash the current stable-version of Batocera 5.25 for x86_64 on it (via Etcher for example)
Activate the nvidia-drivers (instructions see here: https://wiki.batocera.org/doku.php?id=supported_hardware&s[]=nvidia#nvidia_drivers)
Boot from this flash drive and then start kodi. Within the system-settings of kodi go to sound settings and test every audio output device you find there, until you get working sound within kodi. remember the #hdmi number (for example hdmi#1)
Exit kodi and go to the system-settings within batocera ES and then in sound-settings select the proper (same #hdmi-number) output device there. you should now have sound.

Scenario 2
Same as scenario 1, but take out the GTX 460 before (and you don't need to activate nvidia-drivers then). Your Intel i5 CPU should have an iGPU (Intel HD Graphics), which then will be used.

Scenario 3
Same as scenario 1, but instead of official stable-version 5.25 of batocera you test with the nvidia-legacy version of batocera (you can get it here: https://camargo.batocera.org/nvidia-legacy/upgrades/stable/last/)

I guess that at least one of those scenarios will work for you ;)

yanyan95

joinski
Désolé de répondre avant lui et merci pour votre aide.

scenario 1
Kodi identifie hdmi0 , hdmi1 , hdmi2... et lorsque je retourne sur Batocera ES j'ai hdmi0 , hdmi0 , hdmi0...
Elles portent toutes le même nom mais ce ne sont pas les même. Je pense que lui aussi!

scenario 2
Cela fonctionnera puisqu'il n'y aura plus qu'une sortie hdmi sur son projet.
Facilité mais moins performant pour PCSX et DOLPHIN, dommage lorsqu'on a le matériel!😉

scenario3
GTX 460 donc Batocera Nvidia-legacy obligatoire!
Je sais qu'il utilisé batocera5.24 legacy avant. (on c'est croisé sur le tuto)😜

Donc je pense plutôt un problème alsamixer... mais je ne suis pas expert.

joinski

yanyan95

Sorry, i did not understand (even with the usage of google translator it was impossible for me to understand what you wrote). Could you please try to answer in english?
My native language is german, but i can understand english relatively well.

yanyan95

joinski
I'm sorry my English is very bad!