On Thu, 28.02.08 21:57, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > The first thing I need to do is to get the spdif port on my CMPCI to > work with pulseaudio. I'm finding that defining an alsa-sink manually > using device surround51 doesn't work, I don't get any audio. surround51 is for analog 5.1 output. For spdif you need to use a device like "spdif:0". Oh, and don't use --system, unless you really know what you do. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4