[arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

[Mike Cloaked]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Mike Cloaked  wrote:
> >
> > So presumably I need to set this into either ~/.sound or /etc/alsa.conf
> and
> > try to test from a text console as:
> >
> > aplay -D /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
> >
> > and if that works then the default channel will have been set as the HDMI
> > channel and then switch back to trying from KDE ?
>
> That's right.
> Put this in your ~/.asoundrc:
>
> pcm.!default {
>   type hw
>   card 0
>   device 7
> }
>
> And "aplay  /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" should work (without
> -D because you do not want to specify the device).
>
> Once this is secure, fire KDE, update your kmix conf to use the default
> device and everything should work.
>
> What is happening is that flash use your default sound device, bypassing
> kmix. This is why you need to put your HDMI as default.
>
> Thank you  Cédric - I have it working now.


-- 
mike c