Damien Couderc <open...@petrocore.eu> wrote: > Le 01/05/2020 à 15:01, Mark Kettenis a écrit : > >> Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 14:17:56 +0200 > >> From: Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> > >> > >> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Damien Couderc wrote: > >>> > >>> Speaking of the hdmi-only devices that were disabled in 2009: does the > >>> project still stand on this position in 2020? I made a quick search and it > >>> seems that more than half of the screens are audio capable now. I > >>> understand > >>> the defaults back in 2009, but now is it still true? > >> > >> There's nothing wrong with hdmi-only devices. As long as audio works > >> by default with no tweaks, nobody will object to re-enabling > >> them. AFAIK, this was the only reason to disable them. > > > > Right. The main issue was that by default we only send output to > > audio0. On many machines the audio device associated with the HDMI > > port appears before the audio device that is associated with the > > speakers and/or headphone jack on our laptops. Therefore by default > > audio would go to an unconnected HDMI. Just enabling digital-only > > devices would not work. > > > > There are a couple things we could do here. > > > > 1. Make sndiod(8) responsible for picking a default output device. > > I thought it was the case with the -f and -F options: > > -F device > Specify an alternate device to use. If it doesn't work, > the one > given with the last -f or -F options will be used. For > instance, > specifying a USB device following a PCI device allows > sndiod to > use the USB one preferably when it's connected and to > fall back > to the PCI one when it's disconnected. > > -f device > Add this sndio(7) audio device to devices used for > playing and/or > recording. Preceding per-device options (-aberwz) apply > to this > device. Sub-devices (-s) that are applied after will be > attached > to this device. Device mode and parameters are > determined from > sub-devices attached to it. > > So if I'm not wrong it could be possible to set the -f option with the > analog device and the -F option with the digital-only one.
I think it is nasty that people must start restart sndiod, and all their applications.
