'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 04/01/10 17:03 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: >> Actually is this safe to do - i.e. disabling it wholesale? Is it not >> used for digital output in some capacity (e.g. if the user picks a >> digital profile)? Or is it perfectly "safe" to just turn it off all the >> time? I don't have this h/w so can't easily test... > > Using "off" is only safe for analog output. To correctly fix this > issue on Lives/Audigys, we need: > > 1) alsactl to mute 'IEC958 Optical Raw' at boot via its init db > 2) PA to set "off" for above mixer control for analog profiles and > "on" for IEC958-enabled ones > > I chatted briefly with Lennart some time ago on IRC about this mixer > control, and he was of the opinion that ALSA needs to correctly set it > at boot (which would be accomplished via (1)). D'oh, I forgot that the patch was to the analog-output.conf.common file... silly me. I'll copy the same fix for the time being. Thanks :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
