2008/10/8 Anders Eriksson
I'm be happy to test it, but I fail to understand how this plays with Alsa and kernel drivers. This driver executes as part of the xorg server, right? I guess it's Alsa that detects audio device on GPU and transferrs audio to it (for example by setting "device" in MPlayer). But radeonhd has to enable this audio output in HDMI and set timing registers. Try to use "mplayer -ao alse:device=hw=X.Y" WITHOUT HDMI connected. You see what happens about speed of playing? That's my knowledge, for more details wait for Christian :)
You mention that it fails when you switch VT. How did you expect it to work when switching VTs? AFAICT, the xorg server is outside the loop when on a non-X VT. Read Christian's works again :) 1. Switching to other VT and back kills playing Audio. The key word here is "back". When I switch to console audio stops playing - that's fine. But when I switch again to X I expect audio to resume playing.
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