[Intel-gfx] Support for HDMI on ASUS P5E-VM HDMI (G35 chipset)

[Jin, Gordon]

Mike Wright wrote on Sunday, January 04, 2009 12:09 AM:
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> Thanks for your email!
>> 
>> "1.  Did anyone at Intel get around to decoding that EDID block yet?"
>>>  I 'm focusing on EDID extension, in order to push CEA extension
>>> mode, recently I did a patch to handle detailed timing block
>>> including both EDID and CEA extension.  
>> "2.  Secondly, can the intel drivers program an arbitrary mode over
>> HDMI like NVIDIA can?  If so then I could ignore this whole EDID
>> thing and just program the right mode."
>>> Currently our driver don't support interlaced mode such as
>>> 1920x1080i, but do for others mode completely. 
>>> after pushing CEA extension into Xorg, I 'm going to do the feature
>>> for interlaced mode. 
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> Ma Ling
> 
> Thanks for the update Ma Ling.  My Pioneer is working well with a GTF
> generated 1280x720 at 50hz modeline.
> 
> I must say that the general quality of the 2.5.99.1 Intel driver is
> great.  I have been exercising XV heavily using MythTV.  Everything is
> working perfectly including vblank (on the hardware overlay).  I just
> need to get stereo HDMI working.  Currently I have left channel audio
> only.  I think I need an ALSA patch.  It is mentioned here:
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-November/012158.html.

In case someone wants the ALSA patch based on 2.6.28 kernel, I'm putting the back-ported patch to http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/download/alsa-hdmi.patch.

Gordon