[alsa-devel] The SPDIF light on the Eurocom Q6 (Clevo P95xER-series) is always on

[Dennis Mungai]

Thank you for the clarification.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 20:07 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:54:09 +0200,
> Dennis Mungai wrote:
> >
> > Hello Takashi,
> >
> > Running amixer -c0 cset iface=mixer,name='IEC958 Playback
> Switch',index=16
> > off turns off the SPDIF light.
>
> And is the SPDIF light turned on again by some other action?
>
> > If I may ask, with this model, the primary sound card shows up as the
> > ALC1120:
> >
> > cat /proc/asound/car*/co* |  grep Codec
> > Codec: Realtek ALC1220
> > Codec: Intel Kabylake HDMI
> > Codec: Nvidia GPU 83 HDMI/DP
> >
> > Would a model override via:
> >
> > options snd-hda-intel model={model_name}
> >
> > in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf using a model name from
> >
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/sound/hd-audio/models.rst
> > be applied to work around the issue above?
>
> No, this has nothing to do with the model.
> It's only the question who turned on the mixer.
>
> > Also, does turning off the SPDIF light as shown above disable SDPIF
> output?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> Takashi
>