[alsa-devel] Nvidia hdmi problems

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:52:46 +0200,
Nir Tzachar wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > At Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:39:49 +0200,
> > Nir Tzachar wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >> > At Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:30:21 +0200,
> >> > Nir Tzachar wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >> >> > At Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:35:01 +0200,
> >> >> > Nir Tzachar wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I have been trying to get audio through hdmi to work for some time
> >> >> >> now. I have cloned the sound-2.6 repository to get the latest drivers,
> >> >> >> which should support hdmi, AFAIK.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Try more later version, from my sound git tree, or even Linus tree.
> >> >> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> >> >>
> >> >> I tried yesterday's version. Apart from not having hdmi output, it had
> >> >> problems with volume control.
> >> >
> >> > Please elaborate?
> >>
> >> I performed a git-clone on the repository. The head was
> >> b47d892509f2d908974781443d29b11dcd29d809.
> >
> > Better to pull onto the latest Linus tree.
> > That is, clone linux-2.6.git, then pull from sound-2.6.git.
> 
> ok, will do this.
> 
> >> When I played a movie in mplayer and touch the volume controls,
> >> mplayer got stuck. I can perform other tests. I'll also try to update
> >> the tree.
> >
> > Which device are you using?  HDMI or other?
> > Also, please check whether this happens with Linus tree and 2.6.27.x,
> > too.
> 
> Using the analog device, and it works under 2.6.27.1 flawlessly.

OK, then it must be a regression.
If it works with Linus tree, the problem is the post 2.6.28 stuff.
If it doesn't work with Linus tree, too, it's likely changes to
patch_realtek.c...


thanks,

Takashi