Hiho, I'm using a digital receiver with an Audigy SE card and in-kernel alsa 2.6.22 on gentoo. Surprisingly I had no problems setting up digital output and ac3 passthrough (simply using iec958). I can't change the volume, but I guess that's normal. I'd really like to use dmix as well but when I specify the iec958 as slave I get: "dmix plugin can be only connected to hw plugin" The Audigy SE has 3 other hw devices but I didn't get any sound through spdif when using them: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 So..does that mean it's not possible with the audigy se card? Maybe I could buy another one(more expensive though), my dealer has: Creative Soundblaster Connnect (USB) Terratec EXTERN Aureon 5.1 MK II ML However, it seems that those two can't top the audigy se which can do 24 bit and 44.1, 48 and 96 KHz over spdif(according to creative's web page). For those of you that read the bose companion thread, I can finally tell you what the result of that very helpful discussion was for me. As I already said I bought the audigy se because it apparently has very good digital output support and is very cheap. Furthermore, I was thinking about getting a good headphone solution, a good stereo solution or a good surround solution. In the end, I think I got a good deal of all three. I bought a Marantz SR 8001 surround receiver that also supports dolby headphone. Marantz is famous for its stereo receivers and it is said that that quality can also be found in their surround receivers. Additionally, they are relatively cheap for their class because they don't put lots of fancy stuff like ipod connectors in their receivers. I also got a chance to listen to the dolby headphone thing in advance and did like the sound of it. Also I can say that the quality in stereo mode over the headphones is definitely better than with my on-board sound card, totally new experience listening to well known songs. Regarding the speakers, I bought 4 Klipsch B3 Synergy which I really like for their crystal clear sound. All that's missing now is a subwoofer. I won't buy a center since it would have to be placed below my monitor and the marantz can redirect the signal through the front speakers. So thanks for your help getting where I am :) Uli ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
