r600 hdmi sound issue

[Greg Dietsche]

2011/11/9 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> 2011/11/9 Greg Dietsche <greg at gregd.org>:
>> Hi,
>> I have a ASUS M4A89GTD motherboard and when I play back music in Rhythmbox,
>> there is no sound (hdmi connection). Also, the playback speed is in a sort
>> of fast forward (for example, after a few seconds of real time, rhythmbox
>> shows something like 30 seconds into the song). This seems to be a kernel
>> regression. I know that it started with 3.0, is present in 3.1, and is not
>> working in 3.2-rc1, so it is still a problem.
>>
>> I bisected and found my self here: fe6f0bd03d697835e76dd18d232ba476c65b8282.
>> However due to some graphical issues, I'm not actually able to test that
>> commit. I tried reverting that commit, but the problem wasn't fixed.
>>
>> I'd like to see this problem fixed and can compile and test patches as
>> necessary. Please let me know if you need more information - I'm happy to
>> provide it :)
>
> fe6f0bd03d697835e76dd18d232ba476c65b8282 is not likely. I suspect you
> just experience results of so-called-fix:
>
> 805c22168da76a65c978017d0fe0d59cd048e995
>
> drm/radeon/kms: disable hdmi audio by default
>
> I'm trying to get in contact with ppl affected by issues when enabling
> audio. Hopefully we can fix audio support and enable it by default
> again.
>
> For now, please load radeon module with "audio=1", or simply boot with
> radeon.audio=1
>
> --
> Rafał
>

Thanks Rafał that fixed it for me. (Wish I'd noticed that commit
earler). Anyway, if you need any testers at some point for this
driver, just let me know. I'd be happy to try them out.

Greg