[alsa-devel] Wrong channel order with multichannel HDMI on MCP7A

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:51:39 +0300,
Anssi Hannula wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I have a motherboard with NVIDIA MCP7A HDMI audio.
> However, multichannel audio is not mapped properly into the HDMI order.
> 
> On 5.1, I get RL in FC, RR in LFE, FC in RL, LFE in RR.
> 
> Interestingly, this is not consistent with the ALSA channel order (FL FR RL RR 
> FC LFE) being passed directly to HDMI (FL FR LFE FC RL RR). Instead it looks 
> like there has been a waveformatex (FL FR FC LFE RL RR; windows?) => HDMI 
> conversion instead of ALSA => HDMI.
> 
> Same happens for 7.1.
> 
> Is it possible to set the hardware to do an ALSA => HDMI conversion instead?
> If not, we should manually compensate for this somewhere, right?

Does the patch below change anything?

> Somewhat relatedly, trying to output 4 channels results in silence only. 

Although 5.1/7.1 work?

> Trying to output 3 or 5 channels triggers a timeout with I/O error, with the 
> following in the kernel log: "ALSA pcm_lib.c:1757: playback write error (DMA 
> or IRQ trouble?)"

HD-audio doesn't support the odd number of channels in general, so
they should be played as 4 or 6 channels.  But, it looks like
something wrong in the setup...


thanks,

Takashi

---
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_nvhdmi.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_nvhdmi.c
index 3c10c0b..7355c60 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_nvhdmi.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_nvhdmi.c
@@ -511,6 +511,8 @@ static int patch_nvhdmi_8ch_7x(struct hda_codec *codec)
 
 	codec->patch_ops = nvhdmi_patch_ops_8ch_7x;
 
+	init_channel_allocations();
+
 	return 0;
 }