On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:37 -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> The Radeon 3870 comes equipped with on on card ATI HDMI audio chip.
>
> [root@(protected)
> Card:ATI Radeon X1300 and later: ATI Technologies Inc|Radeon HD 3870
> [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:9501 subv:1002 subd:2542)
>
> [root@(protected)
> unknown      : ATI Technologies Inc|Radeon HD 3870 Audio device
> (vendor:1002 device:aa18)
>
> When harddrake configures the "sound card" it sets it to use
> snd-hda-intel.
> This is incorrect.
> According to the Realtek docs the ati chip should instead use
> snd-atiixp

The 'unknown' shows there's nothing MDV specific there; only kernel
modaliases (which come from upstream). Anyway, according to recent
discussion on radeonhd mailing list, it sounds like hda-intel is correct
for this stuff...
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adamw