Comment # 20 on bug 1183872 from Imnotgivingmy nametoamachine

(In reply to Kai Vehmanen from comment #19)
> This is probably happening in linux/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c:sync_eld_via_acomp().
> Commenting out "silent_stream_enable()" and "silent_stream_disable()" calls
> in that function would be interesting experiment on a setup that triggers
> this. It could be the snd_hda_power_up_pm() call, but that would seem
> unlikely, so most probably something goes wrong in silent_stream_enable().

Say no more! One kernel compilation that might yield some concrete results I
can bare (since I'm currently with very weak hardware and compiling the kernel
takes over an hour at best, and not a few minutes or even seconds like probably
does in your development machines)
I'll do it tomorrow since it's late here, or if Takashi can spoil me a bit more
with a patched kernel from OBS that would be awesome *wink* *wink*

Also speaking of OBS is it open to everyone or just for suse developers? I can
probably learn to use it and patch test kernels myself, (if I can use it) so I
don't waste Takashi's time with boring, one time kernel builds for testing.