At Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:52:30 +0100, Dr. Alexander K. Seewald wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:01:53PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Problem seems to lie deeper... > > Sounds so. Which hardware and driver is it? > * NVidia CK804 (integrated into the motherboard MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum) > > aplay -l: > > card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia > CK804 - IEC958] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 The driver won't work properly for SPDIF I/O on nvidia chipset. It cannot set SPDIF status buts correctly. AC3 requires non-audio bit, and some receivers are sensitive for that. DTS doesn't seem to require it (at least most receivers work). > * Alsa drivers 1.0.8-7 (= latest stable version on Debian Sarge) > [2.6.11 kernel, Debian sarge] Oh hoo, a stone age version... Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel