[Alsa-user] ac3 only through oss emulation ?!

2006-06-27 Thread ord
Hi, I have an ALC880 card (snd_hda_intel) with the digital out connected to an external amplifier. and have a clean ubuntu dapper installation The sound works fine for whatever stereo sources ogg, mp3 but as soon as I try to listen to ac3 passthrough then I get a device busy error for example :

Re: [Alsa-user] ac3 only through oss emulation ?!

2006-06-27 Thread ord
Lee Revell wrote: > I guess you verified this with (as root): > > fuser /dev/dsp > fuser /dev/mixer > fuser /dev/snd/* I did but the best proof that the device is free is that gxine -A oss test.ac3 works fine. and oss uses the device for itself as far as I know. Using Tomcat but need to

[Alsa-user] should both "aplay -D hw:0, 0" and "aplay -D hw:0, 2" send correct sound to the receiver ?

2006-06-27 Thread ord
I wrote this question at the end of another mail but since it might be unrelated, I though I would send it by itself with a good subject. 0,1 is the analog out and 0,2 the digital. I use a spdif cable to the receiver aplay toto.wav -D hw:0,0 sounds good aplay toto.wav -D hw:0,2 gives a very hor