Personally I have been waiting for a long time this bug to clear up. Until this bug clears I can not use ubuntu. This is the one usability factor that is a deal breaker for me. I just did an alternative text install setting up boxee media center on an automatic login up and to no avail alsamixer is unable to pipe audio to my sound system. IE958 1 & 2 (coax and optical) are shown as being off and can not be toggled within alsa mixer.
By the reports here I need to install mmmmm 2 gigs more worth of software just to get audio? This is on a limited size ssd drive set up for small footprint and speed. Is this a bug in alsa or is this a bug in ubuntu? Either way is was a poor decision to include this version of whatever it is that is causing this. As a matter of fact any time I have ever used ubuntu I have had to do days worth of searching and meddling just to get audio working the way it should be. In all cases I had to remove pulse audio and use advanced mplayer configs to do it. If anyone who reads this felt valient, stop putting buggy audio drivers in your distros and develop a curses based unified interface that, unlike alsamixer, actually works. If one interface had options for passing ac3 and dts tracks through ie958 and then again playing 2 channel through ie958 as well then all of these bug reports would be nullified, no? From that point it wouldnt matter the application. I am honestly scratching my head wondering why this bug is so old. This is likely one of the larger reasons ubuntu continues to loose popularity among folks who have used linux for a while. -- SPDIF won't play PCM after playing AC3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25632 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
