Thank you for the clarification. On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 20:07 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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