[LAU] HDMI ?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Florin Andrei wrote:
>> Dave Phillips wrote:
>>> The port is indeed HDMI. The nVidia chipset is the MCP78S (GeForce
>>> 8200), which has ALSA support, so I think it's do-able on this machine.
>>
>> Oh, you want to send *sound* over HDMI. That's different.
>>
>> I've seen mixed levels of success recently (as opposed to zero success a
>> while ago). It looks like some people were using the latest NVidia and
>> ALSA drivers and were able to unmute the HDMI audio.
>
> Looks like it's as easy as running recent video and audio drivers, then
> the HDMI audio device shows up in alsamixer:
>
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2008-December/240598.html

That's encouraging, although I've had nothing but trouble with
2.6.26.6-rt11. Nothing but trouble....

I went back to 2.6.24-rt1 on my AMD64 system.

Cheers,
Mark