<span class="gmail_quote"><br></span>I've been try to get SPDIF output on my frontend with no success. Please any kind souls out there help me.<br>I already try <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF</a></span> and<br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?module=intel8x0#opt" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?module=intel8x0#opt
</a> </span><br><br>Well to be more specific, I do get sound via tos-link but only 2 channel (Dolby Pro-logic). I want to passthrough 5.1 (Dolby Digital). Not having any luck, I've try playing with alsamixer. Unmute iec958 and set slider to "0", still no AC3 output to my receiver.
<br><br>my specs:<br>Mythdora 4.0<br>Shuttle XPC SB75G2 optical output ==>> Denon AVR-95 optical input<br>Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)<br>Alsa v1.0.14<br><br><br><font size="4">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">lspci</span><br></font>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)<br>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
<br>00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)<br>00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)<br>00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
<br>00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)<br>00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)<br>00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
<br>00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)<br>00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)<br>00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
<br>00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)<br>00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)<br>00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34GL [Quadro FX 500/600 PCI] (rev a1)<br>02:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)<br>02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
<br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">aplay -L</span></font><br>front:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0<br> Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5<br> Front speakers<br>surround40:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0<br> Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5<br>
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers<br>surround41:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0<br> Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5<br> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers<br>surround50:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0<br> Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
<br> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers<br>surround51:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0<br> Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5<br> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers<br>null<br> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
<br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">aplay -l</span></font><br>**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]<br> Subdevices: 0/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
<br>card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br><font size="4"><br></font><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4">modprobe.conf
</font><br></span>alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix<br>alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0<br>options snd-card-0 index=0<br>options snd-intel8x0 index=0<br>remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
<br># nvidia kernel module<br>alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-9755<br>alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-9755<br>alias eth0 tg3<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><br>asound.conf</font>
<br></span></span>#Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand<br>#SWCONF<br>#DEV 4<br>defaults.pcm.card 0<br>defaults.pcm.device 4<br>defaults.ctl.card 0<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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