I'm not sure when it actually got broken but I recently tried playing some music in Exaile and it was a no-go. I have had this working before because I was resampling output from mythmusic before I figured out that my hardware and receiver could handle 44.1kHz PCM audio. When I pull up pavucontrol it thinks the digital output it's working as I can see the level meter operating as expected. I've tried various configurations and here's what I know: Pulse -> ALSA Analog is fine but quiet, I have every slider turned all the way up. Direct ALSA Analog is fine Direct spdif (Digital) is fine. Since the version of Pulse on F10 does not attempt to automatically use the digital sink I have added the following line in the stock default.pa just under the module-hal-detect line: load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1 format=s16le rate=48000 channels=2 sink_name=digital. Any ideas would be appreciated. I'll post some system info below. Thanks, Richard uname -r: 2.6.29.5-84.fc10.x86_64 aplay -l: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 yum list installed | grep pulse: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 1.0.18-2.fc10 installed alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.0.18-2.fc10 installed fluxbox-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.1.1-1.fc10 installed pulseaudio.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-core-libs.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-libs.i386 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-libs.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-module-gconf.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 0.9.14-3.fc10 installed wine-pulseaudio.i386 1.1.23-1.fc10 @updates yum list installed | grep alsa: alsa-lib.i386 1.0.20-1.fc10 installed alsa-lib.x86_64 1.0.20-1.fc10 installed alsa-lib-devel.x86_64 1.0.20-1.fc10 installed alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 1.0.18-2.fc10 installed alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.0.18-2.fc10 installed alsa-utils.x86_64 1.0.20-2.fc10 installed bluez-alsa.x86_64 4.30-2.fc10 installed