Audio Support in IGT
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This document provides information and instructions about audio support in IGT.

Introduction
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The audio test is aimed at testing the audio features of display connectors,
such as HDMI.

Test setup
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The setup required for the audio test consists of using an HDMI-VGA adapter with
an audio-out 3.5 mm jack to extract the audio from the HDMI interface.
The audio-out jack is connected back to the device-under-test's line-in.

Depending on the behavior of the adapter, it may be necessary to connect a
ghost VGA dongle to it (in order to emulate a connected display) to enable the
audio output. There are guides available detailing how to build these.

When executed, the test will automatically send the test audio signal to all
ALSA audio HDMI outputs and record from the standard ALSA capture device.

Configuration
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In order to deploy the test, ALSA controls have to be configured to set the
ALSA capture source to line-in. On Intel x86 systems, this can be achieved
with the following calls to the amixer utility:
# amixer sset Line 31 on
# amixer sset "Input Source" Line

It is then useful to store the ALSA state permanently with the alsactl utility:
# alsactl store

These settings can be restored with the alsactl utility:
# alsactl restore

It is desirable to ensure that the alsa-restore and alsa-state systemd services
are enabled to do this job automatically, especially in the case of an
automated testing system:
# systemctl enable alsa-restore
# systemctl enable alsa-state