Hey all, I'm new to this mailing list, searched through the archives quickly
and couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me so decided to sign up
:).

Anyhow here goes:
I got myself a HDTV for usage as monitor and for sound, it's connected to my
(nVidia GPU based) laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Xi 2528 should it be of
interest).
Basically I started by selecting to selecting the IEC958 and IEC958 Default
PCM switches and managed to generate sound however the sound kept breaking,
like in the middle of a song the sound would just stop and I'd have to
restart whatever I was listening to (on occation multiple times and not
always getting it back).

After reading up on the article on digitalout at the unofficial wiki:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/DigitalOut#Set_your_default I set my
default card to my digital output direcetly (0,1) and this resolved these
issues however a new one arised. Basically the applications playing sounds
lock the device meaning I can only ever have sound from one source
simultaniously, this in itself is pretty annoying. What is more of an issue
is the fact that I generally have to close these applications (not only stop
the sound from playing) to be able to have another source play sound. For
example if I have played a flash video then I will have to close down my
browser to listen to something different. Not sure if it makes any
difference or not but I am able to listen to multiple sounds generated by
the same application, for instance the sounds of two flash videos will play
simultaniously while a flash video and a file opened in mplayer won't both
be allowed to play.

Some more info
Distro: Arch Linux, 32-bit
I've posted config files and output from the  "aplay -l" command here:
http://pastebin.com/m1b888e6b

If I'd be able to get some help resolving this I'd be most grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Xenio
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