<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com" target="_blank">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 18 June 2013 12:43, John Nissley <<a href="mailto:jnissley@nissley.org">jnissley@nissley.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> card 1: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 1: ICE1724 IEC958 [ICE1724<br>
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</div><div class="im">> I did try what you mentioned prior to sending the email but if I did not<br>
> tell you that than how would you know. I forgot to mention that the HDMI<br>
> output does work but I have the HDMI going to my TV for video and I really<br>
> want the digital sound going to my stereo. I am using the DVI output on<br>
> my motherboard with a DVI to HDMI converter to get the video into the TV.<br>
> I was really hoping to force the audio out of the digital SPDIF out on my<br>
> motherboard. I even purchased another sound card just to rule out any<br>
> hardware malfunction and still nothing. I even placed some recommended<br>
> lines in my /etc/asound.conf file which I never needed before but I<br>
> figured I had nothing to loose. I think I just need to find a way to<br>
> force the sound out of the port I want instead of letting linux decide<br>
> the one I want.<br>
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</div>did you run alsamixer and toggle the mute button on and off ? unless<br>
you do that, the output is muted by default for some reasons.<br>
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BTW, if your motherboard has both HDMI and DVI output, usually, you<br>
can get audio from the DVI output too as it pass exactly the same<br>
signal as the hdmi port, only the physical connector is different.<br>
<br>
you don't need to modify /etc/asound.conf<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This may not be the case for you, but I got tripped up last night when I rebooted into kernel 3.8 for the first time. I discovered the alsa crew "fixed" some longstanding conflict on systems that have both SPDIF and HDMI (to the detriment of the less-frequently-used SPDIF). I haven't fully explored a long-term solution yet but reverting to kernel 3.7 made my SPDIF sound work again for now.<br>
<br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>