On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:27 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Still wondering why setting AC97-SPSA to 0 doesn't work in this > case. Try the following: > > - plug to the analog output on docking station > - set "IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA" to zero via alsamixer or whatever > - set "IEC958 Playback Switch" on > - run > % aplay -Ddefault foo.wav | aplay -Ddefault shutdown.wav Playing WAVE 'shutdown.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo -> Silence | aplay -Dspdif startup.wav aplay: main:550: audio open error: Device or resource busy -> I got the totem player open in the background, it didn't produce any sounds but seems to lock the pcm channel. After closing totem player: | arcs@storm:/usr/share/sounds$ aplay -Dspdif startup.wav Playing WAVE 'startup.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo -> played sound | aplay -Ddefault startup.wav Playing WAVE 'startup.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo -> still no sound hoped that helped. cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel