On 06/12/05, Mat Kyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently replaced my home theatre reciever with one that has digital > inputs (old one was 5.1 analog), 2 coax and 1 optical. Naturally I would > like to get the best sound from my HD-MythTV box, (that might be the > reason I bought the new reciever but don't tell that to my wife), so I > removed the SB Live! 5.1 (analog) sound card that i had installed, went into > the BIOS settings and enabled the onboard soundcard that has a SPDIF coax > connector. When I rebooted, KDE told me that it could not find the sound > card, So I went under System Settings - Soundcard Detection, and it foud it > rightaway. Cool. ( I have the line out from the mother board connected to > my TV and the Coax connected to my reciever) Sound comes out of the Tv but > not the reciever. I go into Myth Frontend, and select a HD recording to > play, Again sound out of the TV but not the reciever. I then gointo > settings and switch between the 3 settings available to me, and when i try > to play a HD recording Myth informs me that it cannot find the sound card. > Well at this time i figure that the ALSA mixer has muted the SPDIF connector > so I try to open up alsamixer and get the following error message: > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or > directory
As Marius suggested, check out the digital sound howto - http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo and also the ALSA docs for your card - http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intel&card=ICH+southbridge+AC97+audio.&chip=440MX%2C+i810%2C+i810E%2C+i820%2C+ICH4%2C+ICH5%2C+ICH6&module=intel8x0 Essentially you need to make sure your .asoundrc and mixer settings are correct to allow audio to be routed throught the SPDIF output. I would also remove all references to your old Creative card and the duplicate reference to another intel8x0 card that appear to be in your modprobe.conf file. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
