ThinkPad systems have no HDMI sound when using the nvidia GPU

[Alex Hung]

Some ThinkPad systems have a power-saving feature that turns off Nvidia HDMI audio device in Windows, but NVidia Linux driver does not support this feature. As a result, HDMI audio will not work on Linux.

A BIOS workaround is added with an OEM_OSI string "Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio" which needs enabling in Linux kernel too.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-done-bionic'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-failed-bionic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.18.0-7.8

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linux (4.18.0-7.8) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.18.0-7.8 -proposed tracker (LP: #1789459)

  * pmtu.sh fails on 4.18 kernel (LP: #1789436)
    - SAUCE: Revert "vti6: fix PMTU caching and reporting on xmit"

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:08:51 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-34.37

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linux (4.15.0-34.37) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-34.37 -proposed tracker (LP: #1788744)

  * Bionic update: upstream stable patchset 2018-08-09 (LP: #1786352)
    - MIPS: c-r4k: Fix data corruption related to cache coherence
    - MIPS: ptrace: Expose FIR register through FP regset
    - MIPS: Fix ptrace(2) PTRACE_PEEKUSR and PTRACE_POKEUSR accesses to o32 FGRs
    - KVM: Fix spelling mistake: "cop_unsuable" -> "cop_unusable"
    - affs_lookup(): close a race with affs_remove_link()
    - fs: don't scan the inode cache before SB_BORN is set
    - aio: fix io_destroy(2) vs. lookup_ioctx() race
    - ALSA: timer: Fix pause event notification
    - do d_instantiate/unlock_new_inode combinations safely
    - mmc: sdhci-iproc: remove hard coded mmc cap 1.8v
    - mmc: sdhci-iproc: fix 32bit writes for TRANSFER_MODE register
    - mmc: sdhci-iproc: add SDHCI_QUIRK2_HOST_OFF_CARD_ON for cygnus
    - libata: Blacklist some Sandisk SSDs for NCQ
    - libata: blacklist Micron 500IT SSD with MU01 firmware
    - xen-swiotlb: fix the check condition for xen_swiotlb_free_coherent
    - drm/vmwgfx: Fix 32-bit VMW_PORT_HB_[IN|OUT] macros
    - arm64: lse: Add early clobbers to some input/output asm operands
    - powerpc/64s: Clear PCR on boot
    - IB/hfi1: Use after free race condition in send context error path
    - IB/umem: Use the correct mm during ib_umem_release
    - idr: fix invalid ptr dereference on item delete
    - Revert "ipc/shm: Fix shmat mmap nil-page protection"
    - ipc/shm: fix shmat() nil address after round-down when remapping
    - mm/kasan: don't vfree() nonexistent vm_area
    - kasan: free allocated shadow memory on MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE
    - kasan: fix memory hotplug during boot
    - kernel/sys.c: fix potential Spectre v1 issue
    - KVM: s390: vsie: fix < 8k check for the itdba
    - KVM: x86: Update cpuid properly when CR4.OSXAVE or CR4.PKE is changed
    - kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supported
    - powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback
    - powerpc/pseries: Restore default security feature flags on setup
    - powerpc/64s: Fix section mismatch warnings from setup_rfi_flush()
    - MIPS: generic: Fix machine compatible matching
    - mac80211: mesh: fix wrong mesh TTL offset calculation
    - ARC: Fix malformed ARC_EMUL_UNALIGNED default
    - ptr_ring: prevent integer overflow when calculating size
    - arm64: dts: rockchip: fix rock64 gmac2io stability issues
    - arm64: dts: rockchip: correct ep-gpios for rk3399-sapphire
    - libata: Fix compile warning with ATA_DEBUG enabled
    - selftests: sync: missing CFLAGS while compiling
    - selftest/vDSO: fix O=
    - selftests: pstore: Adding config fragment CONFIG_PSTORE_RAM=m
    - selftests: memfd: add config fragment for fuse
    - ARM: OMAP2+: timer: fix a kmemleak caused in omap_get_timer_dt
    - ARM: OMAP3: Fix prm wake interrupt for resume
    - ARM: OMAP2+: Fix sar_base inititalization for HS omaps
    - ARM: OMAP1: clock: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
    - tls: retrun the correct IV in getsockopt
    - xhci: workaround for AMD Promontory disabled ports w...