At Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:57:51 +0200,

Sander Knopper wrote:

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Dear developers,

I've opened a bug about this problem which can be viewed here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5101

Raymond mentions in his last comment that I should ask you to, if I understand correctly, do the same trick as in the commit he refers to also for the ALC892 chip. Which obviously is the one I have...

You can find all the relevant information in the bug entry.

Could you post the exact problem and attach alsa-info.sh output to ML? It'll help much for communication on ML.

Takashi

Ok, I can do that...

The problem is that I have an Asus P7H55 M Pro motherboard which uses the ALC892 codec. I'm using this system as a HTPC and thus I'm trying to get sound from the HTPC to my receiver. The motherboard only has an optical output which shouldn't be an problem, be it that my receiver only has a coaxial input.

So I bought an spdif bracket made by Asus which has both a coaxial and optical output and connected it to the internal spdif pins on the motherboard. So far so good, but the real problem is that I can't get the bracket to work. When I unmute all the spdif related entries with alsamixer only the optical output on the motherboard itself "gives light" and the one on the bracket doesn't.

I've searched the internet a bit and I tried switching the audio output in the bios from HDMI to SPDIF and vice versa, but that doesn't make any difference.

alsa-info is attached.

Regards,

Sander