Bug#659673: [regression 2.6.39 -> 3.0] RV710: no sound through hdmi, timing broken unless sound disabled

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

# regression
severity 659673 important
# [1]
forwarded 659673 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39832
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Hi Santiago,

Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:

> I've found that internal sound has stopped working on some, if not all, ATI
> cards with HDMI output. This was working on 2.6.39 without any problem at
> all, however when we changed to 3.0.0 it broke down and now in 3.2.4 it is
> still broken.
[... nice explanation snipped ...]
>                                                                         I'm
> testing this on a ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350] and the audio
> device identifies itself as ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730 (ATI R6xx HDMI).

Thanks.  Please follow up at [1] with information about the kernel
versions you've tested and attach output from the alsa-info.sh
script[2] with a working and a non-working kernel.  You can get
previous versions of the kernel at <http://snapshot.debian.org/>.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[2] from here: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug