I got a Gigabyte GA-M78SM-S2H motherboard for a MythTV system: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2817 It's a decent board for a home theater thing. VGA, DVI, HDMI, analog sound, S/PDIF - it has everything on-board. The onboard GeForce 8200 can even seem to do 1080p over HDMI with no obvious issues so far. It has a Realtek ALC888 sound chip. With Mythbuntu 8.04.1 (based on Ubuntu 8.04.1) 64 bit, sound was basically broken. When playing anything, there was a very large amount of "static" over the sound, crackling, echoes, etc. Like a speaker on overdrive, with echoes. Unusable. Mythbuntu 8.10rc4 was the same. I compiled and installed ALSA 1.0.18rc3 (driver, lib and utils) on top of Mythbuntu 8.04.1 and now I have clean analog sound. No more distorsion. Excellent! Now, the coax S/PDIF output is turned off by default. If I run alsamixer and unmute the S/PDIF, I do get the S/PDIF carrier on the output (the LED on the receiver lights up), but now alsamixer is frozen hard. I can't kill the process. If I reboot the OS, it would hang trying to kill alsamixer. I have to hit the reset button. And the S/PDIF doesn't even stay activated after reboot. If anybody can figure out how to activate S/PDIF and keep it active after reboot without having a zombie alsamixer on the system, that would be great. I can't help writing code, but let me know if you want me to run any kind of tests, run test versions of the driver, etc. Just tell me what tests to do and I'll do my best to comply. Some info: $ lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0754 (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 075c (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0752 (rev a1) 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0751 (rev a1) 00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0568 (rev a1) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 077b (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 077c (rev a1) 00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 077d (rev a1) 00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 077e (rev a1) 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0759 (rev a1) 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0774 (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 075a (rev a1) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0ad0 (rev a2) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0760 (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0569 (rev a1) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200 (rev a2) myth@mythtv:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* Codec: Realtek ALC888 Address: 0 Vendor Id: 0x10ec0888 Subsystem Id: 0x1458a002 Revision Id: 0x100001 No Modem Function Group found Default PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM Default Amp-In caps: N/A Default Amp-Out caps: N/A GPIO: io=3, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=1, wake=0 IO[0]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0 IO[1]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0 IO[2]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0 Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo Converter: stream=5, channel=0 PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM Node 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo Converter: stream=0, channel=0 PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM Node 0x04 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo Converter: stream=0, channel=0 PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM Node 0x05 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo Converter: stream=0, channel=0 PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM Node 0x06 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital Converter: stream=5, channel=0 Digital: Digital category: 0x0 PCM: rates [0x5e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000 bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32 formats [0x1]: PCM Node 0x07 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x08 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x10011b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x0b, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Converter: stream=0, channel=0 SDI-Select: 0 PCM: rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000 bits [0x6]: 16 20 formats [0x1]: PCM Connection: 1 0x23 Node 0x09 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x10011b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x0b, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Converter: stream=0, channel=0 SDI-Select: 0 PCM: rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000 bits [0x6]: 16 20 formats [0x1]: PCM Connection: 1 0x22 Node 0x0a [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100391: Stereo Digital Converter: stream=0, channel=0 SDI-Select: 0 Digital: Digital category: 0x0 PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32 formats [0x1]: PCM Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 1 0x1f Node 0x0b [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] Connection: 10 0x18 0x19 0x1a 0x1b 0x1c 0x1d 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17 Node 0x0c [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0 Amp-Out vals: [0x13 0x13] Connection: 2 0x02 0x0b Node 0x0d [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Connection: 2 0x03 0x0b Node 0x0e [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Connection: 2 0x04 0x0b Node 0x0f [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Connection: 2 0x05 0x0b Node 0x10 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x11 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x12 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x13 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Pincap 0x083e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger Pin Default 0x01014410: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Green DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0 Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x15 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] Pincap 0x083e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Black DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c 0x0d* 0x0e 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x16 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] Pincap 0x0836: IN OUT Detect Trigger Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Black DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c 0x0d 0x0e* 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] Pincap 0x0836: IN OUT Detect Trigger Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Black DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f* 0x26 Node 0x18 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] Pincap 0x08373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100 Pin Default 0x01a19c40: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink DefAssociation = 0x4, Sequence = 0x0 Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80 Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x19 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] Pincap 0x08373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100 Pin Default 0x02a19c50: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink DefAssociation = 0x5, Sequence = 0x0 Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80 Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x1a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] Pincap 0x08373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100 Pin Default 0x0181344f: [Jack] Line In at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Blue DefAssociation = 0x4, Sequence = 0xf Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN VREF_HIZ Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Connection: 5 0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x1b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Pincap 0x08373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100 Pin Default 0x02214c20: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Front Conn = 1/8, Color = Green DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x0 Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP VREF_HIZ Unsolicited: tag=04, enabled=1 Connection: 5 0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26 Node 0x1c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo Pincap 0x0820: IN Pin Default 0x593301f0: [N/A] CD at Int ATAPI Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Node 0x1d [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400000: Mono Pincap 0x0820: IN Pin Default 0x4005c603: [N/A] Line Out at Ext N/A Conn = Optical, Color = UNKNOWN DefAssociation = 0x0, Sequence = 0x3 Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Node 0x1e [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400300: Mono Digital Pincap 0x0810: OUT Pin Default 0x014b6130: [Jack] SPDIF Out at Ext Rear Conn = Comb, Color = Orange DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT Connection: 1 0x06 Node 0x1f [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400200: Mono Digital Pincap 0x0820: IN Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Black DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Node 0x20 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00040: Mono Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=17 Node 0x21 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x22 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] Connection: 11 0x18 0x19 0x1a 0x1b 0x1c 0x1d 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x0b Node 0x23 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] Connection: 11 0x18 0x19 0x1a 0x1b 0x1c 0x1d 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x0b Node 0x24 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono Node 0x25 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo Converter: stream=0, channel=0 PCM: rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM Node 0x26 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00] Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Connection: 2 0x25 0x0b -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ 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