Re: [alsa-devel] 5.1 surround sound with Hercules Fortissimo II

At Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:05:39 +0200, Tomi wrote:

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The SPDIF output on CS46xx-based sound card unlikely works. It's a long-standing bug that transferring non-audio often breaks because of lack of proper SPDIF status bits setting.

I have no clue yet what to fix this...

I do not know if I understood U correctly but at the moment 5.1 surround sound is not possible with Hercules Fortissimo II, correct?

It depends on what you need for your surround box. If you connect the digital (SPDIF) output for AC3/DTS, it doesn't work. If you connect 3 analog output jacks, it *might* work. The 5.1 *analog* output is supported on *some* boards with cs46xx chip.

Takashi