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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:11 AM

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?

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:14 AM

Hi

>But when I select the spdif device on xmms (hw0,4) the song seems to play but no sound is uttered on the receiver.
>
>
I use use 'snd_intel8x0' with spdif and analog out...
Select (hw0,0) or default.

If you have still problems try:

maggo@bart maggo $ iecset
Mode: consumer
Data: audio
Rate: 44100 Hz
Copyright: permitted
Emphasis: none
Category: PCM coder
Original: original
Clock: 1000 ppm

- Data:audio:
if set to non-audio if after a very silent part of a song, a song change
or you've a very low volume in xmms (using the software volume option)
there is no more sound, set it with 'iecset audio on'
- Rate: 44100:
mp3s have 44100Hz, dvds have 48000Hz. If you set it wrong you've a
crappy sound. I set it to 44100 an told xine and mplayer to resample to
44100.

>PS: It would be nice to output, by default, to analog and digital
>simultaneously. How can it be done?
>
>
that's the standard...(if you set it in the alsamixer)

Ciao
Maggo

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:15 AM

Hi

> If you have still problems try:
>
> maggo@bart maggo $ iecset

The 'iecset' utility reported alright...
I don't know... I changed the mixer controls and the receiver was
acknowledging everything, but no sound was being uttered. I just rebooted
the machine and the whole thing worked. *sigh*

Thank you for your time!

-- djaba

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:15 AM

djaba enlightened us with:
> I don't know... I changed the mixer controls and the receiver was
> acknowledging everything, but no sound was being uttered. I just
> rebooted the machine and the whole thing worked. *sigh*

It isn't windows, but sometimes a windoze tactic also works on Linux
;-)

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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