Re: no sound with DIGITAL INPUT

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

(CCing Takashi)

On Sunday 22 February 2009, jacques wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a giga-byte GA-EG43-S2H with an integrated REALTEK ALC888 sound 
> card. I'm unable to use the digital INPUT while recording or using pipe 
> (arecord -M -D iec958 -f dat | aplay -D iec958 -f dat). Also, the 
> giga-byte GA-EG41-S2H has the same problem (uses the same sound 
> chipset). The giga-byte GA-EP45-UD3R is working perfectly but it uses a 
> different sound chip (ALC889A). I tried a lot of things like changing 
> snd-hda-intel model (auto, 6stack-dig, 3stack-dig, etc). I upgraded the 
> ALSA sound driver to the latest version (1.0.19) and also used the 
> snapshot. My distribution is Ubuntu 8.10 (server edition) 64 bits. I 
> also installed the desktop version of it without success. I tested the 
> digital input on Windows operating system and it works perfectly. Now, 
> I'm not sure if I'm missing something with the configuration or it is a 
> problem with the ALSA driver or the kernel module itself.
> 
> Look at the outputs from alsa-info script (computer outputs for details):
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=068933737fa64bc43928b06d2f4b4559986e6439
> 
> Thank you for helping me to solve this problem.