<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">That configuration can't work correctly.<br> <br> With HDMI the audio data is interleaved in the video vertical and horizontal sync periods. So if you don't have video you don't have any way to submit audio either.<br> <br> What the driver properly does is providing a dummy video signal so that audio can be transfered anyway. Most likely just a clone of the desktop picture.<br> <br> Please provide you're xrandr --verbose output.<br> <br> Regards,<br> Christian.<br> <br> Am 09.03.2016 um 17:31 schrieb Jarkko Korpi:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:DUB125-W522A78712A0C3505718797E9B30@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <style></style> <div dir="ltr">I have ati r9 290 I have been using external amplifier that puts the sound into speakers. I have this connection using r9 290 --> hdmi --> speakers<br> And dvi --> pc screen.<br> <br> xrandr (that broke my config again) see this external amplifer as a display which is it not. Kde/mint/upstream should fix this so it would be more correct. <br> <br> Hdmi channel is just sending audio data to amplifier. And it feels like that ati is using more clock cycles to provide the picture and the audio than it should. <br> <br> Is there anyway to prevent this in future? <br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org">mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>