Bug#660111: multiple, non-physically accesible, HDMI devices (Re: pulseaudio: pa can't handle multiple HDMI devices)

[Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Andres Cimmarusti
<acimmarusti@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andres, do you know of relevant commit ids?  Can you describe the
>> difference in behavior between 3.2.19-1 and 3.4.1-1~experimental.1 and
>> whether it's worth backporting these changes?
>
> I will try the kernel from experimental and let you know if the
> changes are worth while. Unfortunately I have not tracked the relevant
> commits. But it looks like you probably found them. We can probably
> contact David Henningsson from Canonical, since he was heavily
> involved in it and provided a lot of guidance to solve this issue.

I just tried kernel 3.4.1-1~experimental.1. I could see NO benefit at
all in using that kernel. I still had to choose from a long list of
advertised HDMI interfaces in pavucontrol before finding the correct
one that produced sound on the TV speakers.

On my laptop at least, I saw NO automatic jack detection benefit
whatsoever. Is there anything else that needs to change?

Perhaps David Henningsson can comment?

Thanks

Andres