[Alsa-user] Trying to get a C-Media card's spdif working...

[Chad <mas...@gm...>]

Evening!

I don't really no where to start or what information to provide, so
I'll start light and hope someone can guide me from there :)

To start off:
I have a fairly decent understanding of linux.  I can follow a how-to
pretty well, and understand most of the lingo.

I've read a lot (everything? :D ) on getting SPDIF out working with
these cards (cmipci) but have still not been successful in the widest
form of the word.

I currently have analog out working (from the 'green' plug) just fine.
 Ideally, I want to completely remove that plug, and only have 1 cable
running from my spdif (orange plug) out on the card to my reciever's
digital coax input.  The receiver can auto-detect an AC3 stream versus
a PCM stream and auto-switch, so I am hoping that Alsa with this card
can output this all through the spdif port.

I've got the default ~/.asoundrc:
      pcm.cmipci {
           type hw
           card 0
        }

        ctl.cmipci {
           type hw
           card 0
        }

And I'm loading the module via modules.conf on Gentoo using a 2.4.13
kernel with Alsa from the kernel (if I should switch to alsa outside
the kernel, I'm happy to if it will help with troubleshooting/etc.).

Like I said, not sure what else to provide, but hopefully this will
get me started.

Thanks!

Chad