On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:17:56PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > 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. > > > About the multi-codec devices, how do you see it ? Keeping all the codecs > > and adding a knob to switch between analog and digital to select the codec ? > > This seems to make sense. >
I would deeply appreciate it if HDMI with audio could be activated. My laptop has a hideous screen and the audio cannot turn off the speakers when I only want to use the headphones. My eyes are not so good anymore, so a bigger screen, 2nd screen would be great. OTH, something is broken in the hardware or -current for a long time, so I'm stuck at 6.6-stable. Still have the same vision problem, though. Chris Bennett
