Comment # 6 on bug 1180543 from Michael Hirmke

(In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #5)
> (In reply to Bit Juggler from comment #4)
> > Hope this helps.
> 
> It would actually have helped if you had tried what is suggested in comment
> #3.

Had the same problem today with my DELL XPS.
Using snd_hda_codec_hdmi.enable_silent_stream=0 worked around the problem, and
I got back my graphics environment.

Thx!

Bye.
Michael.