[mythtv-users] optical SPDIF output on nforce4 mobo: Success (of a sort)
Adam Hirsch
mythtv at quakerporn.com
Tue May 2 02:41:21 UTC 2006
Greg Woods (greg at gregandeva.net) wrote:
> So it's back to square one and trying a different approach.
Well, for what it's worth, I've got my optical port working, more or less.
I run alsamixer, set
Item: IEC958
to [PCM]
and
Item: IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA
to 0 (it looks like a volume meter, but apparently is not, per this page:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Realtek+ALC950
The perplexing thing is, despite my SPDIF interface being on hw0,2
## mwamizi% aplay -l
## **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
## card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]
## Subdevices: 1/1
## Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
## card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK804 - IEC958]
## Subdevices: 1/1
## Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
The only way I was able to get sound out of the command line or MythTV was
to set the output to mixed-analog. I can't fathom it.
Adam
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