[alsa-devel] HP pavilion dv5 1110ew - no hdmi sound

[Vedran Miletić]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> At Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:41:22 +0100,
> Bartłomiej Holdenmayer wrote:
>>
>> Dnia 2009-02-11, śro o godzinie 21:32 +0100, Takashi Iwai pisze:
>> > At Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:23:35 +0100,
>> > Bartłomiej Holdenmayer wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I did with:
>> > > sudo sh ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.sh -snap
>> >
>> > What the hack this script does?
>> >
>> >
>> > Takashi
>>
>> Description in full is here:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810
>>
>>
>>
>> The main idea of upgrading ALSA with attached script, is the timeshift
>> of updates through official channels in the range of up to half a year.
>>
>> This is IMO not acceptable.
>>
>> There is a great chance that you get your soundcard up and running or
>> problems resolved much earlier, if you use the very lastest
>> ALSA version. The script will get you the latest official stable ALSA
>> release and - if available - the latest release candidate
>> for an upcoming release.
>
> The released or rc tarballs are way too old for debugging.
> Use the snapshot tarball in the URL below (not from
> alsa-oroject.org).
>    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz
>
>
> Takashi
> _______________________________________________
> Alsa-devel mailing list
> Alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
>

I don' think this will be enough. If you look at lspci, there is not a
single mention of HDMI device. I believe (well, at least MCP78S has it
that way) that HDMI device should be listed. If it isn't listed for
discrete graphics, then there is some other way that it must be
implemented.

I believe that ATI also lists separate device for HDMI audio.

To be precise, my 8200 board has this:
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10de/0774, and there is a BIOS option to
enable and disable it.

If there isn't a way to get HDMI audio device listed in lspci (BIOS
option or whatever), I don't believe upgrading ALSA will do much here.

-- 
Vedran Miletić