On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec(a)pomec.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there are special drivers that are needed for
this.
I don't know if this is one of the ATI cards that falls in the
unsupported category or not, but there are definitely ATI HDMI
cards out there with no HDMI audio support in current released kernels.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNDY
possibly includes your card (not sure though).
You may have to install the ATI proprietary drivers (if they'll
work with F16, which is also iffy :-).
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Tom,
Thanks for the response. I was afraid of that. I don't think my skill
set allows me to safely try out their drivers. I already tried to
install akmod-catalyst and ruined my gui. Thanks for your suggestion,
Looks like I may need to wait on a 3.3 kernel unless someone else has
unlocked this problem.
Actually, the kernel has HDMI audio support for your particular card,
it's just disabled by default. Add "radeon.audio=1" to your kernel
command line to enable it.
Hat-tip to the always awesome Arch wiki for this information.
-T.C.