Hello,
trying to track down a long standing bug concerning PCM output over spdif and analog ports simultaneously after AC3 passthrough (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25632 ), I've been digging into the inner workings of HD Audio...
It seems to me that after playing DVDs with AC3 passthrough the stream associated with the default alsa device is only connected to the front Audio Output widget but not at the same time to the Digital output widget, as I would have expected. I've attached the contents of /proc/asound/Intel/codec#0 during music playback to this mail; you can see the different streams connected to nodes 0x02 and 0x03.
I'm not familiar with the hda driver, but I suspect that after AC3 passthrough the multi-out configuration isn't reset to what it's supposed to be.
Is there a way to work around this issue, or am I completely missing the point?
Thanks for your help, Tomas