Comment 17 for bug 1264665

it is the graphic driver which send request to your hdmi tv/monitor to get EDID, it extract info from EDID to ELD and pass ELD to audio driver

are you connect your TV to display port , hdmi or DVI connector ?

The file is located in /proc/asound/cardX/eld#Y.0 (where X is the card number, and Y is the device number starting from 0. So if aplay -l shows Card 0, device 3 as being the first device listed you need to check /proc/asound/card0/eld#0.0).