At Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:14:40 +0200, Dennis van der Meer wrote: > > ..... > > > > I have been successful in using the drivers to play sound through the > > > analog out. I have tried every possible setting I could think of to make > > > the digital out work but somehow it's not enabled. Otherwise I would > > > notice a red light going on at the back of the card. > > > I don't have a .soundrc. Do I need one for this functionality to work? > > > >Have you tried the second device? aplay -Dplughw:0,1 <filename> > > Yes, I have. No luck :( > It starts playing like there should actually be some sound but there's no > sound whatsoever. The digital out isn't even initialised / enabled since the > red light on the back of the card is not on. > I started playing again with the mixer controls to see if changing the values > might make a difference but once again none of the settings would enable > the digital out.
attach the /etc/asound.state. there is a mixer switch to enable the spdif, "IEC958 Playback Switch". together with the switch, you need to set up the IEC958 status bits correctly. but in general, you can play with "spdif" device, such as aplay -Dplug:spdif foo.wav (when the wav file is 16bit). Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user