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I was having an email discussion with a colleague who was getting into Debian. He had installed Squeeze on his machine and then became stumped because there was no Audio being transmitted from the NVidia GTX460 Video card. Ultimately, his solution involved a visit to Debian Backports and the installation of the proprietary NVidia driver.
Here is his email to me:
"I have everything up and working.:-)) yay!
It turns out that the gtx460 graphics card's GPU only recognized certain codecs that became valid after the 2.6.35 kernel or something like that. This page
http://www.nvnews.net/
has a good article on alas hdmi troubleshooting for nvidia.
http://www.nvnews.net/
has a good article on alas hdmi troubleshooting for nvidia.
I back ported the 2.6.38 kernel and the sound outputs magically appeared, however the nvidia graphics driver done the "debian way" didn't want to play, so I installed the proprietary drivers straight from nvidia. In hindsight, I think it may have had something to do with the nouveau graphics drivers the new version of debian comes with as I needed to blacklist them in the mod probe.d directory.
Anyway, it's working as advertised with all the bells and whistles, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction..."
Posted in the hope someone will benefit.
Later ......
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