[solved] HDMI audio is silent

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2023-04-09 at 14:47 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
> Ah. No idea why, then. If it's of any comfort to you, my sound has
> been messed up for the past two releases now and the only way I can
> get my speakers to make sound at all is to plug them into the headset
> jack, so that's what I do and, luckily, it works nicely.

Hi,

pulseaudio? All required sinks are loaded?

By the way. I've found that "pcspkr" works on my new hardware, only the
environment is too loud, a cooing pigeon or a squeaky bike easily drowns
out the buzzer.

Now I try to find out were to get a usable buzzer. I opened a thread on
an Arch forum:

"Today 13:30:07

PC speaker/buzzer

Hi,

does somebody know where to get a good PC speaker/buzzer? I ordered two
buzzers for less than 1,- € each. One is so quite that it cannot be used
at all, the other at least does produce an audible POST beep. However,
even the one that is ok to produce a shrill POST beep, is still not loud
enough for other tasks. At first I thought that there is an issue with
new hardware and the pcspkr module, since I heard absolutely nothing
from the buzzer when running a Linux session. A few days ago I used this
computer for the first time while the room's window was closed. Without
the noise from the small city I noticed a hardly audible click produced
by the buzzer when using ROXTerm. Since my new hardware forced me to
migrate from syslinux to grub, I tested the buzzer with grub
"play 1920 440 1 0 1 880 2 0 1 880 1 0 1 440 2".  Grub's signal is
audible with the window opened, as long as no bird is chirping or an
electric car rolls by. When connecting the buzzer build into an old
computer case of my other computer to the new mobo, it's loud enough to
be audible, even when a bird chirps or an electric car rolls by. Those
buzzers all look the same. I've never seen a company name, but some
companies make these things and in different qualities.

I don't want to buy another 10 useless buzzers for less than 1,- € each.
I'm in favour of 1 working buzzer for 10,- €.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Ralf

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