Bug 34782

Summary: No sound over HDMI on HD5470
Product: xorg Reporter: Vytenis Sodaitis <nforce25>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: jonathanr.pritchard+bugzilla
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: All   
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Description Vytenis Sodaitis 2011-02-26 14:32:10 UTC
When connected to an LCD TV over HDMI, there is no sound. The sound is ok with the Catalyst driver. The picture is perfect, but no sound. I'm using kernel 2.6.37, Gentoo, xorg-server 1.9.4, xf86-video-ati from git, mesa from git, libdrm from git
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2011-02-26 20:39:50 UTC
hdmi audio is not supported yet on evergreen and northern islands asics.
Comment 2 Vytenis Sodaitis 2011-02-27 04:46:26 UTC
Does it need something like releasing documentation from amd, or you just haven't got enough time to implement this? Is it very different from r600-r700? Approximately, when it's planned to be implemented? Thank you for answers
Comment 3 Rafał Miłecki 2011-02-27 07:22:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Does it need something like releasing documentation from amd, or you just
> haven't got enough time to implement this? Is it very different from r600-r700?
> Approximately, when it's planned to be implemented? Thank you for answers

It needs one of the following:
1) Releasing docs
2) RE on fglrx

Support for previous cards was implemented thanks to RE performed on fglrx.

Unfortunately I don't own any 5xxx or newer card, not sure about Christian who could be capable of RE that family too.

AMD tries to provide docs for months, if not years now.
Comment 4 Tom Horsley 2011-06-18 16:41:45 UTC
I have also just been noticing this on my Zino HD (Dell Inspiron 410) with the ATI Mobility HD5400 series card. I get sound if I install the Catalyst driver (but the picture is absolutely horrible). I get a perfect picture with the radeon open source driver but no sound. If it is any help, I captured alsa-info output for the same hardware with the different drivers. Pretty much everything is near identical till it gets to the very end with the dmesg output where there are lots of HDMI hotplug events with the Catalyst driver and no such events with radeon.

Links to the alsa-info and my other experiences with the system can be found at:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/zino/zino.html#Fedora
Comment 5 mirh 2017-04-02 09:49:52 UTC
Guess like this can be closed?
Comment 6 Alex Deucher 2017-04-03 14:39:32 UTC
HDMI audio has been supported for a while.

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