Hi I have a strange problem and coudn't find any help so far: Every time I start an audio stream, alsa is muting spdif (only spdif) on my soundblaster card. In Amarok I can play the whole playlist without muting. But if I click on a song in the playlist, spdif gets muted. If I run alsactl restore spdif gets activ again (also true for mpg321, mplayer, etc) With alsactl store -f - I found that the follwing values are changed if I start a new audio stream: Correct values (spdif activ): control.113 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type INTEGER comment.count 12 comment.range '0 - 255' iface PCM name 'EMU10K1 PCM Send Volume' value.0 255 value.1 255 value.2 255 value.3 255 value.4 255 value.5 255 value.6 255 value.7 255 value.8 255 value.9 255 value.10 255 value.11 255 } And after a new stream is startet (spdif inactiv): control.113 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type INTEGER comment.count 12 comment.range '0 - 255' iface PCM name 'EMU10K1 PCM Send Volume' value.0 255 value.1 255 value.2 0 value.3 0 value.4 255 value.5 0 value.6 0 value.7 0 value.8 0 value.9 255 value.10 0 value.11 0 } Do you have any idea what's causing the mute action everytime I start a new audiosream? I'm using: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Gentoo 2008 amd64 Kernel linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 Thanks for your help! Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user