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Hi all, |
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I used to (rarely) use the coax output on my Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop |
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to feed into my hifi. Now that I watch a lot more movies / tv from my |
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laptop, I wanted to get it going again, but I no longer get any output |
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from the coax out. |
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Investigating google a bit, I found that this works with mplayer: |
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mplayer -ao alsa:device=spdif -srate 48000 blah.mp3 |
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giving me crystal clear audio (I had to mute it to make sure there |
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wasn't someone in my house, cause the sound effects on the audio track |
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were so realistic!) |
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how do I get it to work by "Default" for everything alsa? (gnome, |
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rhythmbox, etc) |
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I tried playing around with all the options I could see in |
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gnome-volume-control, no luck. |
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google suggested setting IEC958 playback to 0 (yes, zero) which worked |
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for others, but firstly this setting was never saved with |
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gnome-volume-control or even alsamixer, and secondly, it didn't seem to |
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have any effect. |
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Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything about my system when it did |
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work like this (it was a while ago), only that it doesn't anymore. |
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Here are the specs: |
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Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev |
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02) |
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pci-id 8086:24d5 |
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suspend2 sources 2.6.17-r5, with alsa built as a module (snd_intel8x0). |
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Can anyone shed any light on the issue? |
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many thanks, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Price's Advice: |
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It's all a game -- play it to have fun. |
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