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

[David George]

And here I was thinking I had gone crazy.  I noticed the same thing when I 
did an apt-get upgrade on Saturday.  I had gone from the 2174 kernel (with 
associated alsa) to the 2179 kernel.  I am using the built in optical on 
an Abit motherboard using one of the Intel 845 chipsets (forget which one, 
but I enable IEC958 in gnome-alsamixer and had optical output).

I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot fully (I'll try aplay tonight when 
I get home), but I lost the optical output in mplayer and myth.  I am 
running the same versions you are.

Anyone else notice this or have a fix for it?

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, 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.
> -- 
> Julian Edwards
> http://www.julian-edwards.com/
> 
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