No Sound through Hdmi

[ccwolf...@gmail.com]

Everything went smooth with install but I don't have sound and can't seem to figure it out. I'm using a Lenovo Thinkcentre Q180 mini pc. Has Intel processor.anyone else having no sound issue?

[Jacob Miles]

I think this is an issue with the under laying Linux Kernel that Android and RemixOS use.  I have tried several Linux distributions that also have this same issue of not being able to pass sound through HDMI.

[frans...@gmail.com]

With Ubuntu 14, 15 and 16 no problem on my Gigabyte Brix 2955 with sound through hdmi on my Samsung smarttv but with Remix no sound. 

[ccwolf...@gmail.com]

I also tried through optical but no such luck there either...otherwise, remix has been running without a problem. Hope someone can guide me where to go to fix the issue...

[ccwolf...@gmail.com]

[Dave Schmarder]

I'm also not getting sound through my HDMI connection. I'm not surprised as last year I tried Android-x86 and found the same difficulty. I'm sure this is already on their todo list, but thought I would mention it anyway.

Dave

Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H

AMD A6-5400K APU

8GB GSkill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL

120GB SSD (Swapable) Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 installed

[Francesco Mirizzi]

Also for me no sound through hdmi from a intel j2900.
I've tried some android x86 with same result. Is there any way to fix it?
Thank you very much

[ccwolf...@gmail.com]

I'm going to mess with it tonight. I saw something online about a way to fix it but had to go to work.(at work now) haha but when I get it sorted out which I'm sure I can and will, I'll post the fix with instructions here.

[Francesco Mirizzi]

It would be great! :)

[mixpa...@gmail.com]

same here. no audio on hdmi to my tv. hope someone has a solution tnx

[ovrlrd]

I messed with this for hours and could not come up with a solution. 

I read on some Android-x86 forums and found out that you can open a terminal emulator and mess around with some alsa commands. The only problem is they won't work unless you are root which means they are useless until we can get root in Remix OS. 

But anyway here is the one main post that started my adventure: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/tY3Mct71b-Q

Some notes:

1. We can't patch this in obviously, but the 'ordering' made me curious to see if it is just choosing the wrong output. 

2. So I ran 'cat /proc/asound/cards' and saw the Intel HDA showing up just fine, but I didn't see anything major relating to HDMI, but the Intel one was set as card 0 so I didn't see any major problems there.

3. Like I said, without root access 'alsa_aplay -l' will always just output "No sound cards found" which is annoying.

4. You also can't edit or add any files in /etc because no root access.

At this point I hit a wall. One idea I had was that we can try adding in a custom alsa settings file by editing the data for /etc on the USB drive outside of Remix OS. This would basically bypass root access in theory.

Well hopefully this brain dump gives some other people some ideas. Good luck!