[vdr] Re: Trouble with optical SPDIF out on Abit NF7 nforce2 mainboard.

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Don, 2003-08-28 um 09.44 schrieb Carsten Koch:
> My VDR PC main board broke last Sunday, so I bought an Abit NF7 main board,
> which is nforce2-based and has LAN and an optical SPDIF out on board -
> perfect for VDR, I thought.
> 
> Analog sound is working fine and light is coming out of the SPDIF output,
> my receiver also indicates that it detects the carrier, but I hear no
> sound at all.
> 
> Alsamixer only displays 3 IEC958-related settings, I tried all
> possible combinations of these 3.
> Do I also have to play with controls like "3D Control" or "Surround"?
> 
> I am running SuSE 8.2 with the SuSE 2.4.20 kernel.
> 
> I updated from the Alsa drivers that came with the SuSE system to the
> latest 0.9.6 from ftp.alsa-project.org, but that did not help.
> 
> Has anyone out here successfully got SPDIF out to work on an nforce2
> main board?
> 
> Any hints what I could try next?
> 

Have you unmuted the mixers?

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