On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:48 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:41 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:29 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > yes very weird on the sound. Using analog speakers at the moment
>> > I got no test sound - and no video sound after getting nouveau to run
>> correctly ????
>> > I was playing analog audio before ?
>> > Does nouveau only do HDMI audio ?
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>> nouveau only does HDMI(/DP) audio. A different driver will handle a
>> built-in sound card (e.g. snd_hda_intel). You might want to reach out
>> to your distro's support channels to better diagnose what's going on.
>> Unlikely to have anything to do with nouveau. More likely that you had
>> added "acpi=off" to hack around this. Or perhaps pci=nomsi for a
>> broken audio adapter? Don't know. dmesg (not to mention google) will
>> have the answers.
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>>   -ilia
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> Thanks - I switched monitors - using a 4K monitor with buildin sound.
> Sound works now- great.  but the screen is not in 4K .
> Does Nouveau not do 4K - 3840x2160?
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> Thanks!
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> Jerry
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HA! I just dawned on my the OLD GT218 does not do 4K... The 4K display
looks like a strched for some reason - I thought it would jus tbe the
normal 1080p.
Anyway - got it working - thanks to all the suggestions!

Jerry