Comment 8 for bug 343989

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David D Miller (justdave) wrote : Re: no sound on nvidia-based Mac Mini

So, some experimenting....

I hooked up a Griffin iMic USB Audio connector figuring a USB output was probably a standard supported thing...

Went into the GNOME Sound panel and hit the Test button.

With it set to Automatic, still no sound.
Manually chose Griffin Tech iMic USB Audio (ALSA), and I get an error: "audiotest wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open audio device for playback."
Manually chose Griffin Tech iMic USB Audio (OSS), and it works and I get sound.

Manually chose HDA NVidia ALC883 Analog (ALSA), which is the built-in sound, and got the identical error I got above with the iMic via ALSA.
Manually chose HDA NVidia ALC883 Digital (ALSA), and it goes through the motions but produces no sound.
Manually chose HDA NVidia ALC883 Analog (OSS), and it goes through the motions but produces no sound.