On 11/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/13/06, Peter Carlsson <<a href="mailto:maillist.peter@home.se">maillist.peter@home.se</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello!<br>><br>> I am trying to get S/PDIF working for my onboard Intel HDA<br>> Realtek ALC880 sound device. I am running Debian (testing)
<br>> and alsa 1.0.13.<br>><br>> Could someone tell me if this is supported for my hardware<br>> or what I should do to make it work?<br><snip><br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Asoundrc_alc850">
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Asoundrc_alc850</a><br><br>should work with the 880 as well.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>Before you ask, read the FAQ!<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions">
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On my board (MSI K8NGM2-FID) I could never get it to work when trying to use ALSA in myth, mplayer, or xine. What did the trick was enabling OSS emulation in ALSA and using OSS support in myth. I just set the device to /dev/dsp, enabled ac3/dts passthrough, and it's worked perfectly since. This is on Gentoo with alsa
1.0.12. I haven't had a chance to look into why this works, but I've read that there is something different about the device number for the SPDIF output that is used for this chipset. Also, be sure that the iec958 output is unmuted in alsamixer.
<br><br>Kash<br>