From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNT0e-0002lB-DZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:34:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8DBXhPe022154; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:33:43 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cirrus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8DBTNV3005785 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:29:23 GMT Received: from orpheus (220-253-117-93.SA.netspace.net.au [220.253.117.93]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAA51700B3 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:29:21 +1000 (EST) Subject: [gentoo-user] coax spdif sound output on Intel 82801EB/ER audio From: Iain Buchanan To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:59:15 +0930 Message-Id: <1158146955.29980.7.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2917c29e-52c6-4945-a793-f8d4735602fd X-Archives-Hash: 07b89ac5658f349c2ad8d81092ddc7b9 Hi all, I used to (rarely) use the coax output on my Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop to feed into my hifi. Now that I watch a lot more movies / tv from my laptop, I wanted to get it going again, but I no longer get any output from the coax out. Investigating google a bit, I found that this works with mplayer: mplayer -ao alsa:device=spdif -srate 48000 blah.mp3 giving me crystal clear audio (I had to mute it to make sure there wasn't someone in my house, cause the sound effects on the audio track were so realistic!) how do I get it to work by "Default" for everything alsa? (gnome, rhythmbox, etc) I tried playing around with all the options I could see in gnome-volume-control, no luck. google suggested setting IEC958 playback to 0 (yes, zero) which worked for others, but firstly this setting was never saved with gnome-volume-control or even alsamixer, and secondly, it didn't seem to have any effect. Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything about my system when it did work like this (it was a while ago), only that it doesn't anymore. Here are the specs: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) pci-id 8086:24d5 suspend2 sources 2.6.17-r5, with alsa built as a module (snd_intel8x0). Can anyone shed any light on the issue? many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Price's Advice: It's all a game -- play it to have fun. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list