[mythtv-users] Lost SPDIF output after apt-get dist-upgrade

[James Armstrong]

I would just like to say that I am having trouble also with SPDIF output 
and the latest dist-upgrade. I have it working on the backend but on my 
new frontend I went from Fedora 2115 from the install CD's to 
kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2179 and the latest alsa packages shown from the 
previous message. I cannot get SPDIF to work for anything. I am using 
the Intel8x0 sound chip and have found lots of other references on the 
net that it works with alsa. Along the same lines, my friend had SPDIF 
working with this same chip. He did the dist-upgrade last weekend and it 
broke for him too. I tried to go to 2174 but apt-get does not find the 
kernel-smp files for 2174 and they are not listed on the website anymore.

- James

Julian Edwards wrote:

>Hi folks
>
>I first installed Myth about 2 months ago and followed Jarod's excellent
>guide.  I successfully had the SPDIF output on my Audigy2 working from
>mplayer, Ogle and OSS emulation from Myth so that everything went
>through the digital output.
>
>However, I did a dist-upgrade the other day (which upgraded the kernel
>and alsa) and I've now lost the output from everything. Mplayer (using
>-ao alsa9:spdif -ac hwac3,) says that it can't open the sound device,
>and Myth fails silently.
>
>This is the mplayer output:
>---
>Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/8bit...
>AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, big endian AC3
>AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch AC3
>Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
>Audio: no sound
>Starting playback...
>---
>
>Bizarrely, the command "aplay -Dspdif <wav file>" works fine (which
>alleviates my fears that it was a hardware failure).
>
>Here's the versions I've got now:
>alsa-utils-1.0.4-7.rhfc1.at
>alsa-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl_47.rhfc1.at-1.0.4-22.rhfc1.at
>gnome-alsamixer-0.9.6-2.fr
>alsa-lib-1.0.4-12.rhfc1.at
>alsa-driver-1.0.4-22.rhfc1.at
>
>Thanks for any help.
>J.
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