Hi there!

I have an ABIT IC7MAX3 motherboard with a Realtek ALC650 chip. The
driver I'm using is 'snd_intel8x0'. I followed the gentoo guide and
everything went fine. But when I select the spdif device on xmms (hw
0,4) the song seems to play but no sound is uttered on the receiver.
The receiver acknowledges the cable is properly connected to a sound
device (which occurs when the alsa module is loaded).

The analog output works fine when I select it.

I used 'genkernel' with default paramters. Since it didn't work, I
tried the following, with no success so far:

- Compiled the ALSA core and driver into the kernel instead of modules
- Muted / Unmuted everything on mixer, including the IEC* controls,
setting the IEC*Playback control volume to zero and above.
- Tried some asound.conf's from the net

Any ideas? I would greatly appreciate!

Thanks a lot in advance!

-- djaba

PS: It would be nice to output, by default, to analog and digital
simultaneously. How can it be done?