[mythtv-users] Know of any alt. to gnome-alsamixer for getting SPDIF working?

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Dec 11, 2003, at 13:16, Romel Llarena wrote:

> The installed version of gnome-alsamixer recently
> comes up blank and when I click on properties, I end
> up with a seg fault. Too bad as I use it to check off
> the Audigy SPDIF output option to get my SPDIF port
> working. Strangely enough that option was always
> unchecked after a reboot. No gnome-alsamixer = no
> sound :-(
>
> Now I've tried alsamixer which fails, and kmixer comes
> up but I don't see any options for SPDIF output.
>
> Can anyone offer alternatives? BTW I've rpm -e
> gnome-alsamixer and reinstalled, as well as apt-get
> update alsa and alsa utils, still getting seg faults.
> Worked fine until yesterday. The only thing I could
> think of that chanced was a 2 minute adjustment in time.

Hrm. You might try rmmod'ing all the sound drivers, delete 
/etc/asound.state, modprobe the sound drivers, then start 
gnome-alsamixer up again. Perhaps the settings file got corrupted. 
(Grabbing at straws on this one)...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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