[Intel-gfx] G45 user experience

[Fu Michael]

Shane W wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:32:40AM +0800, Fu Michael wrote:
>   
>> Do you have any HDMI sink device that can support 5.1 or 7.1 audio?  I'm  
>> looking for those kind of devices as well...
>>     
>
> I'm not really sure what you mean by HDMI sink but my
> receiver which connects to the G45 does support 5.1 and 7.1
> HDMI decoding along with TRUEHD, DTSHD and DSD so I can
> certainly test anything that comes down the pipe as far as
> patches go.
>   
Shane, would you please tell me the model of this HDMI receiver?
> By the way, had a bit more time to test out these HDMI sync
> xorg patches.  Under mplayer, after playing audio for about
> 10 or so minutes with a video stream, the audio starts to
> drop out and then stops altogether.  Stopping and starting
> mplayer doesn't fix it, stopping mplayer and playing a wav
> via aplay gives silence.  Stopping Xorg does correct it and
> once Xorg is restarted, it'll run with video for another 10
> or so minutes and stop again.  This is using Saturday's GIT
> on ALSA, Xorg and Intel with the IALSA Intel hdmi patch,
> and the HDMI patches for Xorg and the Intel driver applied.
>
>   
Are you able to connect your PC to your HDMI TV directly to see if this 
bug still there?

thanks,
Michael
> Shane
>
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