On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Q wrote: > As for installing Red Hat, well I am a Gentoo Linux user... For better > or for worse that is what I am... It has taken me 4 months to get Gentoo > set up (its only rival in terms of difficulty to install is I think > Linux from Scratch) and after having gotten everything else working, I'm > not in the mood to give up now. four months? i discovered gentoo september 19 and have everything that i need set up now (and today i discovered i can use cooledit96 under wine!). redhat sucks. suse is great for easy use. anyway, i've got the same audio chipset, as well as an audiophile 2496, but my motherboard (kt400-alh) has analog 5.1 output, no digital. i can try to see if that option works under linux, thoough, if you think it will help you. also, make sure you are using a proper spdif cable (75 ohm, i think), and not just any rca cable as it won't work. i wish i could find one of those here in korea. ffiw, dave
