Chris Bennett <cpb_t...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > 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.
It cannot be turned on at this point, because on many machines HDMI audio will precede azalia, and so the default behaviour for those people will be silence. First step is to make it much easier to select alternative default audio (to INSIST on a specific audio device being the "primary", without having to add flags to every application)
