I tried using the snapshot because I was having the same problem as Peter was. No spdif out on my vt1708s. Unfortunately for me my build didn't go quite as well, for some reason I had 2 undefined which make the snd.ko fail to load. Is there something that I'm missing? I am running slamd64 distro current, with the latest kernel along with the alsa kernel patch "2.6.29.4-rt15". Please help.

Building modules, stage 2.

MODPOST 131 modules

WARNING: "register_sound_special_device" [/usr/src/alsa-driver/acore/snd.ko] undefined!

WARNING: "unregister_sound_special" [/usr/src/alsa-driver/acore/snd.ko] undefined!

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29.4'

utils/link-modules /usr/src/alsa-driver