[alsa-devel] snd_hda_codec_hdmi: `hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec`

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:58:44 +0100,
Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
> > Why the i915 driver gets initialized *so late*?
> 
> Maybe, because it’s built as a module?
> 
> ```
> $ grep I915 /boot/config-4.20.8.mx64.245 
> CONFIG_DRM_I915=m
> # CONFIG_DRM_I915_ALPHA_SUPPORT is not set
> CONFIG_DRM_I915_CAPTURE_ERROR=y
> CONFIG_DRM_I915_COMPRESS_ERROR=y
> CONFIG_DRM_I915_USERPTR=y
> # CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT is not set
> CONFIG_SND_HDA_I915=y
> ```

That explains.  You built the HD-audio as built-in while the graphics
as module.  This makes the binding impossible at the time of sound
driver initialization.

If you build the graphics driver as a module, built the sound driver
also as a module.


thanks,

Takashi