Question for acid_kewpie regarding his hdmi audio script
 

Hi acid_kewpie,

I have a question regarding this thread you made a few months ago.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...g-hdmi-903802/

I modify it a bit using trial and error and I am a bash noob. Where should I put this script? In other words I want the system to read and adhere to the rules in the script. :)

you'd have a file like /etc/udev/rules.d/hdmi.rules:

KERNEL=="card0", ACTION=="change", RUN+="/home/user/hdmi.sh"

But TBH, it never quite worked for me. I ended up converting into a script which I could run from a terminal without any parameters, which looked for the HDMI status and acted accordingly. I can post it later if you would find it useful.

No that's okay. What I really need is an alsa conf file that causes the hdmi to automatically output audio instead of my laptop speakers like s/pdif. Anyway, I found a udev rule on the arch forums. Works for a couple arch users. Not for me. I made your script a sh file and added it to startup in gnome-session but all it did would override my sound settings and always cause hdmi output even if hdmi was not plugged in. KDE has phonon which allows you to choose prefence of device but I found it cumbersome and unstable.

ahh well I'm here now... someone else might be interested