On 16/01/12 21:04, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I recently bought the Creative X-Fi HD USB. Everything seems to work >> except that the iec958 PCM appears to be muted, and I can't find a >> control for it. >> >> I've also tested the same hardware (X-Fi USB device, optical cable and >> amplifier) connected to a Windows machine, and it worked immediately > > Is there a separate Windows driver for this device? If not, or if it > does work without this driver, please show the output of "lsusb -v" > for this device. > Hi Clemens, I've finally been able to get it working... My previous sound card enabled/disabled the IEC958 S/PDIF by using a toggle in the ALSA mixer - so I expected the X-Fi to work the same way I've since found that it presents the IEC958 as a distinctly different device that needs to be accessed independently. When I put this line: load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1 in /etc/pulse/system.pa then the IEC958 starts working. I'm using it with kernel 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 and Debian's alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-2 Another observation I made: it seems that my system (either the device or just the driver) was in a bad state, I was getting this error: 1116: Unable to install hw params I was able to resolve that by detaching the USB device, unloading all the kernel modules, and then attaching it again. Looking in Google, I found various other people mentioned a similar error, but I haven't seen the error again since I got it working. Regards, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
