Thread: SPDIF Not Working after Motherboard Upgrade

hello all,

have upgraded motherboard , cpu on media centre amd 3800/gigabyte ga-ma770_d3 phenom 810/asus m4n78 pro.

took liberty change main hard disk, because recording wimbledon every night chews space little

far, have fixed fstab, grub, , networking (udev problem), of yet, have not yet gotten s/pdif (optical audio) working on new motherboard.

have tried enabling iec958 in alsamixer, worked nicely old mobo, no luck one.

should mention using s/pdif on panel , not using hdmi (i have nvidia 7300 plugged in component video)

help:

code:

damien@mediabox:~$ aplay -l  **** list of playback hardware devices ****  card 0: nvidia [hda nvidia], device 0: vt1708s analog [vt1708s analog]    subdevices: 2/2    subdevice #0: subdevice #0    subdevice #1: subdevice #1  card 0: nvidia [hda nvidia], device 3: nvidia hdmi [nvidia hdmi]    subdevices: 1/1    subdevice #0: subdevice #0

code:

damien@mediabox:~$ lsmod | grep snd  snd_hda_intel         557492  3   snd_pcm_oss            52352  0   snd_mixer_oss          24960  1 snd_pcm_oss  snd_pcm                99336  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss  snd_seq_dummy          11524  0   snd_seq_oss            41984  0   snd_seq_midi           15744  0   snd_rawmidi            33920  1 snd_seq_midi  snd_seq_midi_event     16512  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi  snd_seq                66272  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event  snd_timer              34064  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq  snd_seq_device         16276  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq  snd                    78792  15 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device  soundcore              16800  1 snd  snd_page_alloc         18704  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

code:

damien@mediabox:~$ lspci  00:00.0 ram memory: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] memory controller (rev a2)  00:01.0 isa bridge: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] lpc bridge (rev a2)  00:01.1 smbus: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] smbus (rev a1)  00:01.2 ram memory: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] memory controller (rev a1)  00:01.3 co-processor: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] co-processor (rev a2)  00:01.4 ram memory: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] memory controller (rev a1)  00:02.0 usb controller: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] ohci usb 1.1 controller (rev a1)  00:02.1 usb controller: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] ehci usb 2.0 controller (rev a1)  00:04.0 usb controller: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] ohci usb 1.1 controller (rev a1)  00:04.1 usb controller: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] ehci usb 2.0 controller (rev a1)  00:06.0 ide interface: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] ide (rev a1)  00:07.0 audio device: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] high definition audio (rev a1)  00:08.0 pci bridge: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] pci bridge (rev a1)  00:09.0 ide interface: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] sata controller (non-ahci mode) (rev a2)  00:0a.0 ethernet controller: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] ethernet (rev a2)  00:10.0 pci bridge: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] pci express bridge (rev a1)  00:13.0 pci bridge: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] pci bridge (rev a1)  00:14.0 pci bridge: nvidia corporation mcp78s [geforce 8200] pci bridge (rev a1)  00:18.0 host bridge: advanced micro devices [amd] family 10h [opteron, athlon64, sempron] hypertransport configuration  00:18.1 host bridge: advanced micro devices [amd] family 10h [opteron, athlon64, sempron] address map  00:18.2 host bridge: advanced micro devices [amd] family 10h [opteron, athlon64, sempron] dram controller  00:18.3 host bridge: advanced micro devices [amd] family 10h [opteron, athlon64, sempron] miscellaneous control  00:18.4 host bridge: advanced micro devices [amd] family 10h [opteron, athlon64, sempron] link control  01:05.0 multimedia video controller: conexant systems, inc. cx23880/1/2/3 pci video , audio decoder (rev 05)  01:05.2 multimedia controller: conexant systems, inc. cx23880/1/2/3 pci video , audio decoder [mpeg port] (rev 05)  02:00.0 vga compatible controller: nvidia corporation g71 [geforce 7300 gs] (rev a1)

could there left-over configuration old mobo that's polluting setup?

-- damien

since original post, have attempted upgrade alsa via script posted at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810

latest stable:
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firstly, upgraded latest stable (1.0.20 believe was), , latest snapshot --snap option script.

upon doing so, there spdif devices available:

code:

damien@mediabox:~$ aplay -l  **** list of playback hardware devices ****  card 0: nvidia [hda nvidia], device 0: vt1708s analog [vt1708s analog]    subdevices: 2/2    subdevice #0: subdevice #0    subdevice #1: subdevice #1  card 0: nvidia [hda nvidia], device 1: vt1708s digital [vt1708s digital]    subdevices: 1/1    subdevice #0: subdevice #0  card 0: nvidia [hda nvidia], device 3: nvidia hdmi [nvidia hdmi]    subdevices: 1/1    subdevice #0: subdevice #0

that is, "vt1708s digital" new updated driver.

under 1.0.20, none of iec958 options enabled optical output (there 4 available).

snapshot:
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under latest snapshot of 8th july 2009:

there couple of different iec958 options in alsamixer:
* iec958
* iec958 default pcm
* iec958 1

first option enables optical spdif output on of motherboard.

however! you'll need go system -> preferences -> sounds , explicitly select "vt1708s digital" (instead of autodetect) in order sound test work.

have working in use (mythtv, totem etc) except amarok, that's issue.

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