Re: [Alsa-user] ALC861 in Asus Pundit P1-AH2, any suggestions to get SPDIF to work?

[Maarten <maa...@xs...>]

> On 9/24/07, Maarten <maa...@xs...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am running Slackware 12.0 on the system mentioned above with
>> alsa-driver-1.0.15rc2 alsa-lib-1.0.15rc2     alsa-oss-1.0.14 and
alsa-utils-1.0.15rc1. My kernel is 2.6.21.5. My /etc/modprobe.d/sound
looks like:
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
>> alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
>> options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack
>> With this I get 5.1 sound but if I set model=3stack-dig (and IEC 958
appears in the mixer) it is impossible to get 5.1 sound,
patch_realtek.c
>> though suggests you should use the latter one or it even should auto
detect (I am not a programmer). Has anyone a suggestion on how to
accomplish this?
>
> Wait, are you trying to get 5.1 to work, or SPDIF?  How exactly are you
testing it?
>

Lee,

Sorry, it was a bit late when I wrote this. I am trying to get both
working at the same time. If I try the 3stack I have 5.1 sound from the 3
jacks at the back of the PC. In that case I have the 2ch/6ch selection
option in alsamixer and this works fine. An IEC 958 output is in that case
not available. When I try 3stack-dig I do have stereo sound and I have IEC
958 output, but there is no way I get 5.1 sound from the jacks at the
back. The selection 2ch/6ch is also not available. The output of aplay -l
now shows both an analog and a digital device (while using the
model=3stack only analog).

Does this make things a bit more clear?

Maarten