Re: [Alsa-user] Revo 7.1 setup ?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 20:41 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 03 décembre 2005 à 14:28 -0500, Lee Revell a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 20:08 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to setup a revo 7.1 in digital out mode (will do 5.1 analog
> > > whenever I receive Y cables).
> > > 
> > > After much googling the best asoundrc setting I found is :
> > > 
> > > pcm.!default {
> > >         type plug
> > >         slave.pcm "spdif"
> > > }
> > 
> > That .asoundrc does nothing that you could not do by setting the app to
> > use the "spdif" PCM - it's useless.
> 
> I don't want to set up apps; I want the default output to be spdif for
> all the system and all apps, regardless of the sound system they use
> (oss, alsa, gstreamer or whatever).
> 
> without an .asoundrc I get no sound, I suppose it's routed to the analog
> outputs but since they're not cabled yet it does me no good (yes I tried
> toggling IEC958 Output in alsamixer).
> 
> I created this setup after seing an old message from Takashi stating
> aplay -d plug:spdif should work with this card (no idea where spdif is
> defined). And then googling half an hour more on how to make a plug the
> default. This after trying all the revo asoundrc examples I could find
> on the net, none of which did me much good.
> 

Ah, OK. Then it's not a bug, the output just defaults to analog.

Lee



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