[alsa-devel] HDMI out with Zepto Nox A14, help for a patch

[Damien Thébault]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 14:34, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> At Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:27:02 +0200,
> Damien Thébault wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My laptop is a Zepto Nox A14, with an ALC 262 audio chip.
>> HDMI is connected through an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 graphic card.
>>
>> After some investigation, it appears that to output HDMI audio, I have
>> to use the sound card which has a digital out for HDMI connected to
>> the graphic card (there is no nvhdmi thing).
>> I noticed with hda_analyser that there are two digital audio out
>> nodes, the first one is the default ALC 262 one (S/PDIF). With the
>> default configuration, when I enable what's called "HDMI" it's S/PDIF
>> that is enabled (and I can see the red light on the mini-TOSLINK jack
>> when it's enabled).
>> So I was thinking that the second digital out was for the real HDMI.
>>
>> I went into patch_realtek.c and used the id of the second digital out
>> (0x10) instead of ALC_262_DIGOUT_NID (0x06) in
>> alc262_parse_auto_config.
>> That allowed me to have a alsa device hw:0,3 connected to the digital
>> out 0x10 instead of having it on 0x06.
>> Then I had to enable the linked pin too, because otherwise I didn't
>> have any sound. The pin connected to the digital out 0x10 is 0x11 (the
>> one connected to 0x06 is 0x1e).
>>
>> So in the end, I'm able to have HDMI sound! Now here are my questions:
>>
>>  - how can I add this with SND_PCI_QUIRK?
>> I think that I have to find the IDs of my setup (PCI ID?) and then
>> create a preset. How can I find this ID on my system?
>> There is a dig_out_nid field in the preset so I would use 0x10 instead
>> of ALC262_DIGOUT_NID (0x06).
>> I don't know how to change the pin from 0x1e to 0x11, is it automatic?
>
> Could you try the latest alsa-driver-snapshot below?
>    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz
>
> It'll make both digital outputs available, at least.
> It's no best solution, but a workable one.

This snapshot allows me to have hdmi working without any modification.
(And the S/PDIF output lights up too, but I don't know if it's working or not)

So it solves my problem, hdmi audio is now working out of the box on
this system!

Thanks!
-- 
Damien Thebault