On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 1:30 AM Tanu Kaskinen <ta...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 11:44 -0800, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 2:35 AM Tanu Kaskinen <ta...@iki.fi> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 22:00 -0700, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote: > > > > HDMI ports are normally present on cards connected to an internal bus, > > > > and module-switch-on-connect should switch to them when a HDMI monitor > > > > is plugged. > > > > > > > > This is specially relevant on setups where the HDMI port of a machine is > > > > connected to a different audio card then the analog outputs, which is > > > > the case for machines with AMD graphics cards. > > > > > > As I mentioned in an earlier mail, it's not generally a good idea to > > > switch to HDMI automatically, due to the possible lack of speakers on > > > the monitor, so do you really want to do this chage? I'm fine with this > > > patch, though, because if the decision to switch to a HDMI profile has > > > already been made, it's pretty logical to switch output to it in > > > module-switch-on-connect. > > > > > > > I see your point and I understand the implications. We recently > > checked the behavior on Windows and it always switches the audio to > > HDMI no matter what (even with headphones connected), so that tends to > > be the expectation from OEMs. We may change our mind at some point, > > but for now we are sticking with that policy downstream. Ideally all > > the changes we are making to support this case will be generic enough > > that they make sense upstream as well and we only have a small > > downstream patch set changing the ports / profiles priorities. > > > > As you mentioned, when this code runs the decision to switch the card > > profile to HDMI has already been made. But on setups where one card > > has the analog ports and another card has only HDMI ports, the HDMI > > card will always switch to a HDMI profile when HDMI is connected, and > > (unless I'm missing something) the streams will be moved over to the > > HDMI sink. > > > > Let me know if the above comment makes sense, and if you still want to > > have this patch upstream, in which case I can re-send it as a MR. > > No need to re-send, I pushed this now :) >
Thanks! -- João Paulo Rechi Vita http://about.me/jprvita _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
