On Friday 8 June 2018 22:03, Alsa User <alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> put forth the proposition: > David Woodfall wrote: > > I've have had a Xonar D2X for some time now and normally use coax > > spdif output to an SMSL Sanskrit DAC. > > [...] > > I couldn't get any signal via the optical out at all and there isn't > > any light that you normally see shining through the output socket. > > The coax and optical output should work in the same way (and the > software has no way of accessing them separately). > > If coax works and optical does not, then this sounds as if some part > of your hardware is broken. > > > Regards, > Clemens It turns out that if you connect the power cable things start to work :) -- Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I wonder if He has a full newsfeed? -- Matt Welsh .--. oo (____)// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user