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

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Armando Di Cianno <armando at goodship.net> 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?

Do you have the binary ATI driver installed?  Several users have
reported that it's required for HDMI audio to work.

Lee