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Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Yeah, I've noticed this as well. Seems like the cutout tries to fix the auto of sync audio.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
yeah. if it doesn't help with the audio cutouts then change it to runpm=1 and it should revert it.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Also browsing the ChimeraOS Discord I noticed a thread discussing a HDMI audio cutout. I don't think I can link it here but this is what they proposed fixed for them. It's interesting because it seems its related to power management as well. 
CPU: 3900x / GPU: 6800xt. I’m experiencing HDMI audio cuts and dropouts for a while now. Happens on Chimera and Bazzite too last time I’ve tried. My workaround was to use the motherboard onboard sound or an external sound card. Today decided to give HDMI audio a shot (is far more convenient than the workarounds). Came across a post about power_dpm_force_performance_level saying that if you set it to high then the issue doesn’t happen. Gave it a shot and it worked! Maybe the gpu audio chip starves at the lowest profile, who knows. I would like this to be set permanently on my Chimera setup, as of now each reboot reverts the changes. Is there a way to set the high profile permanently?

echo high | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
CPU: 3900x / GPU: 6800xt. I’m experiencing HDMI audio cuts and dropouts for a while now. Happens on Chimera and Bazzite too last time I’ve tried. My workaround was to use the motherboard onboard sound or an external sound card. Today decided to give HDMI audio a shot (is far more convenient than the workarounds). Came across a post about power_dpm_force_performance_level saying that if you set it to high then the issue doesn’t happen. Gave it a shot and it worked! Maybe the gpu audio chip starves at the lowest profile, who knows. I would like this to be set permanently on my Chimera setup, as of now each reboot reverts the changes. Is there a way to set the high profile permanently?

echo high | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
I've had mixed results with my eGPU setup. Initially I noticed one or two cutouts in the first tries. Then in order to get something else fixed (booting into eGPU) I had to disable the GPU power management and since then I have not had any issue with audio cutouts through the eGPU. rpm-ostree kargs --append=amdgpu.runpm=0 I'm not sure if this have any effect while connecting with a dock through HDMI (no eGPU).
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by mindxpert on 3/29/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
eGPU not switching to external display on reboot
I opened an issue on Github and the dev of all-ways-egpu helped me with it. This might help others that find this through search. What I did was adding two args to the kernel and now it does switch to the eGPU automatically on boot. 
rpm-ostree kargs --append=amdgpu.runpm=0
rpm-ostree kargs --append=thunderbolt.host_reset=0
rpm-ostree kargs --append=amdgpu.runpm=0
rpm-ostree kargs --append=thunderbolt.host_reset=0
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by mindxpert on 3/29/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
eGPU not switching to external display on reboot
Also something else that I find a bit odd is that the HDR colors are too vibrant compared to connecting it with a usbc dock on the same TV. Not sure how to explain that but not related to the main issue of the all-ways-egpu
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by mindxpert on 3/29/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
eGPU not switching to external display on reboot
This is my guided setup: https://paste.centos.org/view/787270ab
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by mindxpert on 3/29/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
eGPU not switching to external display on reboot
This is the all-ways-egpu status shows up: https://paste.centos.org/view/e24d65d7
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Thanks for giving it a try and reporting back. I'm hoping to have my eGPU setup finished this weekend (if all parts arrive) and I'll see how that will react to the HDMI audio cutouts. It will be quite different as there will be no usbc dock (eGPU dock instead) but the HDMI will be connected directly to the external graphics card. Not sure if the result will be helpful to anyone else as it's a very niche case but maybe it can give us a better idea.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by mindxpert on 3/26/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Unable to switch to Desktop mode
Whats interesting is that when I disconnected the USB-C dock (connected to TV via HDMI) I was able to switch between game mode and desktop. Once I connected it to my TV again then the same issue happened and I'm not able to go in Desktop mode while on external display.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by mindxpert on 3/26/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Unable to switch to Desktop mode
I uninstalled LACT and all-ways-egpu. Neither of them had any service started or initialised. Same result, cannot switch to Desktop mode.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Oh okay. I'm not sure if I want to lose the other channels from it, and HDMI splitters compatible with Sonos seem to be very expensive ($200+) so that's a no go for me. Thanks for the insight though and glad you've found your solution.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Are you able to get full audio channels using the Toslink adaptor? Like Dolby Digital/PCM and 5.1 channels?
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Does your DVR have multiple input ports? Mine has just a HDMI port so it's tricky. I'll see if HDMI splitters might work. If it does I'm thinking of something like this: Sonos -> HDMI -> HDMI Splitter. Splitter has one HDMI -> TV/eArc so that regular TV outputs to soundbar. Splitter has another HDMI -> Optical adaptor (HDMI to Optical) -> Toslink adapter (Optical to USB) -> Rog Ally Dock.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
That's interesting. I have a Sonos Beam Gen2 that has one HDMI output (connected to TV via eARC). So the Rog Ally has to output to the HDMI so that the TV takes it in and forwards it to the Soundbar. There is a HDMI to Optical adaptor that I have from Sonos but not sure how to connect it. Does your AVR have multiple outputs? Can you briefly explain how your device/avr/tv are connected?
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
I'm going to setup a eGPU soon and will see how the cutout will look like. It will replace my dock and use the GPU HDMI output, my HDMI 2.0 will be replaced with a 2.1 one etc (might give DP to HDMI a chance). So there are some variables in there and I'm curious if/how it will change.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/851 this is probably related and everyone is having a differnt type of stutter/cutout.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
I changed the TV recently and the cutout is very short now. On my Sony it used to be like 2-3 seconds, on the LG C4 the cutout is about half a second. Still noticeable though.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Yeah that's the thing. Everyone is running different devices/docks/hdmi-cables/tvs/earc-soundbars/home-theater etc. It's hard to point the finger on what the problem is.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by duck9r on 2/23/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
ROG Ally: HDMI audio cuts out frequently when docked (Bounty $60 USD)
Anyway appreciate your time on this and hopefully in the future a random kernel/Bazzite update will fix it 🥹
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