Re: [alsa-devel] HDMI v. ICH8 on Dell XPS M1330

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:54 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

In addition to anecdotal evidence, I can confirm that on my work machine the ATI video driver does seem to touch the audio. Interestingly it's the userspace X driver, not the in-kernel FGLRX module.

rlrevell@chronopolis:~$ strings /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so | grep -i hdmi | grep -i audio ex_aHDMIAudioParameters

Isn't DRM fun? ;-)

A similar test with nvidia-drivers 169.12 proved fruitless (as expected).