http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916048
--- Comment #13 from Takashi Iwai
You mention it being a nice improvement, may I ask you what that would be? I must admit I do not follow PA development that closely.
I also don't follow, but still can tell you that many Bluetooth related fixes and improvement and HDMI/DP mapping fixes/enhancements have been included.
Also, if I could ask you a semi-related question since you have your finger on the pulse of PulseAudio (Nice pun, 'ey?).
I run IT for a fairly large (By Danish standards) school, and soon I will be deploying openSUSE 13.2 on work laptops for some teachers (The laptops are ThinkPad L420 machines).
What they will often be doing is connecting their laptops to projectors via DisplayPort-to-HDMI cables. In this scenario, audio also needs to be passed via DisplayPort/HDMI as there are speakers connected to the projectors. Does PulseAudio (Maybe 6.0) have some new feature, that would enable automatically switching to HDMI audio as soon as it notices an active HDMI connection? Or is there some other mechanism that could be used to make is as close to seamless as possible? From what I have been able to gather from Google searches, there currently is not something like this. There is an option to configure simultanious output to both analog and HDMI, but not a switching behaviour (At least that was what the forum posts indicated, if something has been introduced since then, I am all ears).
The feature should be already there, IIRC. However, whether it actually works depends on the hardware; some Intel onboard graphics have a fragile HDMI/DP audio notification (it's rather a hardware bug), and might not work always reliably. In the kernel side, the audio device for HDMI/DP is always present no matter whether it's plugged or not. If pavucontrol shows the HDMI device (plugged) or (unplugged) properly, the switching should work as is. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.