Thank you Daniel for your hint that digital audio passthrough is a kernel issue and not an alsa issue. Did never suspect that before. Just lack the energy, but will come back to the linux spdif issue on the weekend.
I just updated to 2.6.27-4 and "m-a a-i" ist still the line 90 error. BTW, that box is on a cheap amd64x2 4200+ with nforce 5? 6?. However, I suspect some additional race in the 2.6.27-4 as several boots failed - one time reiserfs could not be mounted (shortly after I heard the crank of the analog audio being switched on, another boot just hanged when trying to start the nvidia driver (which usually breaks in intrepid with every update, so that I have to purge and reinstall the package, and then restoring the xorg.conf's 1360x768 LCD-TV modeline... (Just trying to work out the replacement box, which is (or will be) a EE-65W-Phenom on AMD780G chipset (hdmi...). Also lots of intrepid issues there - alsamixer doesn't look promising, plays some sound but far too muted...) ** Description changed: - Support for alc861 sound chip remains poor in intrepd. + Support for alc861 sound chip remains poor in intrepid. - When I run m-a a-i alsa (suggested in hardy to fix alc861 issues) i get - a nice error in line 90 of ainfo.c "implicit declaration" on intrepid. + When I "run m-a a-i alsa" (suggested in hardy to fix alc861 issues) i + get a nice error in line 90 of ainfo.c "implicit declaration" on + intrepid. I usually to a daily "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on my htpc - that i switched to intrepid, as on hardy it was outputting no sound + that i switched to intrepid, as with hardy it was outputting no sound after all, left alone ac3 via toslink passthrough to the amplifier... - So I kindly request: what is needed to gez alsa source buildable on + So I kindly request: what is needed to get alsa source buildable on intrepid and what is needed to get this alc861 chip working? - I am offering too help, but need guidance. + Any files / logs that can be helpful? -- alc861 spdif passthrough not working and m-a a-i alsa broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272823 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
