L wrote, on 2009-01-04 19:13: > Hello, > > Before I start spewing out system details, what I've tried and > not, what's almost working and not, let me just say that my > question basically boils down to this: does anyone here know how > to enable 6-channel audio from an Asus M2V (VT1708/A [Azalia > HDAC], ALC861) internal S/PDIF connector to a graphics card, > which then sends an audio-video HDMI signal to a TV or receiver, > and the sound is received as 6-channel on the TV/receiver end? No, but read on... the S/PDIF doesn't have the bandwidth to output 6 channels unless it is encoded. The S/PDIF output of the sound card would need to send its output encoded in a way that the graphics card would accept and pass through to HDMI. > If the answer is "forget about it, this will never work", a > (rather obvious) follow-up question is: can anyone recommend a > graphics card with built-in sound card, a motherboard, or a > motherboard/graphics card combo that does work well under Linux, > including 6-channel sound over HDMI? I very much prefer fanless > graphics cards, by the way. And I'd prefer not having to rebuild > everything, if possible I'd like to keep my current CPU, memory > etc. The ATI Radeon HD 4350 claim built-in sound and HDMI support and less than 20 Watts power consumption and is apparently supported by the proprietary AMD Linux Catalyst drivers but I have no idea about free driver support of sound support under GNU/Linux. (I run Debian unstable on a machine too slow for video with a fanless Radeon 9200 and SoundBlaster Live!5.1 EMU10K1 sound card ). I only came across this issue from some grumpy MS-Windows users in Hewlett Packard's forums who couldn't play blu-ray dvds with surround sound on their pc's with an external monitor/speaker set-up. Hope this helps... Arthur. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
