Takashi,
On the XPS M1330 (and XPS M1530) the SPDIF pin of the 9228 is hooked to the HDMI as these laptops were made before the HDMI portion had their own audio codec portion of the transceiver. So technically, it should be pretty simple ;)
IDT PC Audio Demo/Linux/Test
-----Original Message----- From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai@suse.de] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:57 AM To: Armando Di Cianno Cc: Tellman, Steven; alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] HDMI v. ICH8 on Dell XPS M1330
At Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:29:06 -0500, Armando Di Cianno wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:55 -0800, Tellman, Steven wrote:
Notice we use the "Other Digital" as the jack. Is that possibly causing a problem? IEC958 shows up, but doesn't provide output to HDMI
devices
(that I've tested).
At a user level, this is definitely what I've experienced.
Are there any suggestions for testing if my current ALSA install /should/ work, or how to find out if something is
misconfigured,
or will simply not work?
I will gladly try any suggestions, thoroughly. Thanks.
It's a bit hard to judge right now. So far, many HDMI devices seem not working even though it appears set up properly. I've heard that ATI HDMI devices are working, but others are not well, e.g. on some devices only left channel is output and on others silent.
Moreover, I'm not pretty sure whether HDMI is connected from the digital out of STAC codec. On many devices (e.g. ASUS ones), there is a dedicated codec for the HDMI transmitter.
So, right now, it's total lack of (hardware) information, unfortuantely.
We may try some verbs for HDMI that are not used in the current ALSA code, at least. These verbs were extended later...
Takashi