[Intel-gfx] HD audio not working

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:33:56 +0200,
Øyvind Kvålsvoll wrote:
> 
> Ref. to filed bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49055:
> 
> DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD audio is not working in Intel Sandy Bridge.
> This must have been well known for quite some time now, and I consider 
> this to be a serious error in the Intel driver.
> Due to this error it is not possible to play DTS-HD or Dolby-TrueHD on 
> Linux.
> 
> I have waited patiently several months for a fix, as I was confident 
> that Intel knew about the problem and surely would fix this in the next 
> driver release.
> I also have the understanding that quite many people are waiting for 
> this fix.
> 
> Seeing as the bug is filed, and someone has actually looked at it and 
> identified the problem, is there a plan for further progress on this?

Could you check whether the test patch Xingchao posted in the last
week fixes your problem?
	https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1256981/

If this really cures, we can cook up it in a bit better form and merge
to the upstream.


thanks,

Takashi