On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:54:09 +0200, Dennis Mungai wrote: > > Hello Takashi, > > Running amixer -c0 cset iface=mixer,name='IEC958 Playback Switch',index=16 > off turns off the SPDIF light. And is the SPDIF light turned on again by some other action? > If I may ask, with this model, the primary sound card shows up as the > ALC1120: > > cat /proc/asound/car*/co* | grep Codec > Codec: Realtek ALC1220 > Codec: Intel Kabylake HDMI > Codec: Nvidia GPU 83 HDMI/DP > > Would a model override via: > > options snd-hda-intel model={model_name} > > in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf using a model name from > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/sound/hd-audio/models.rst > be applied to work around the issue above? No, this has nothing to do with the model. It's only the question who turned on the mixer. > Also, does turning off the SPDIF light as shown above disable SDPIF output? Yes. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel