On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:27:36AM +0200, Tim Orford wrote: > i dont know what causes this. It is like this on some of my systems > and not others. Even without the switch though, the spdif input is > available as alsa hw:0,2. 'scuse my ignorance, but how and where do I use the string "alsa hw:0,2"? By the way, it would help in debugging this (and probably be a usefult tool anyway) to have a recording application that displays the input signal on a meter of some sort. arecord doesn't show anything about the signal (unless I've missed something) audacity would be OK, but while things aren't working I can never be sure whether this is an oss emulation problem (I'm aware audacity isn't perfect in this respect) or an ALSA driver problem. Perhaps I sould install ardour and jack? Sledgehammer to crack a nut, and introducing more unknowns, but there is a long term plan to use them for multitrack mixing eventually. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: 01638 720444 http://www.treewind.co.uk Mob: 07976 263827
