Comment 68 for bug 1773167

(In reply to Tanu Kaskinen from comment #60)
> (In reply to russianneuromancer from comment #58)
> > Tanu, is it possible to hide HDMI Audio output on devices without HDMI
> > output? For example on Lenovo Miix2 8 there is no HDMI. As far I remember
> > it's indicated by HDMI EDID that contain only zero, but in necessary I could
> > double check that.
>
> What does the EDID contain when there is an HDMI output but cable is not
> plugged in? If it's possible to distinguish the two cases of no HDMI output
> at all and HDMI output with nothing plugged in, then it would be possible to
> implement automatic ignoring of non-existent HDMI devices in PulseAudio. It
> would seem more appropriate to do that already in the kernel, though.

AFAIK we already have jack-detect for HDMI in newer pulseaudio + kernel combos, if there is no external HDMI the i915 should not detect a HDMI calbe being plugged in and pulseaudio will ignore the HDMI output.