HDMI Audio on

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:41 +0100, Marius Gröger wrote:
> Rafał Miłecki schrieb:
> > I think no one is working on HDMI port to radeon. However Christian
> > (author of HDMI for radeonhd) ported his work to KMS. Hopefully we
> > will see this in 2.6.33-rc1.
> 
> Well all that KMS stuff is a bit to bleeding edge for me - not that I
> wouldn't trust that stuff but I rather stick with my distro kernels.
> 
> Let me ask my original question the other way round: playing video on my
> 3200HD over HDMI - would I actually benefit from using the radeon driver
>  (vs. the radeonhd), provided I somehow get the HDMI audio ported?
> http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon says that this driver has (better) video
> playback, but - without knowing any of the details - the radeonhd driver
> seems to do fine so far.
> 
> If you ask: why bother if your system is ok as it is? - well, I like to
> run the "right" thing, so if there is more OSS focus on the radeon
> driver I want to use it. Secondly, I like to optimize things, so if
> there's a better driver I want to use it. I'm sure you know what I mean :-)

Yes, of course.
The "right" thing to do it to switch to KMS these days.

	Xav