Can't get optical out to work on 10.04

[Viper187]

My sound card is an HT Omega Striker, and it worked fine with 9.04. I did a fresh install of 10.04 and I can't get optical/SPDIF/IEC958/whatever to work. I only use the optical out (mostly with Rythmbox, if that matters). I know I had to enable IEC958(?) on 9.04 to get it working, but that didn't work this time around. The sound card is found fine, so this is really ******* me off.

card 0: CMI8762 [C-Media CMI8762], device 0: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI DAC/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8762 [C-Media CMI8762], device 1: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI 2nd DAC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8762 [C-Media CMI8762], device 2: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI IEC958]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[xzero1]

Did you enable spdif output in alsamixer? In a terminal type 'alsamixer', use the arrow keys to select S/PDIF output, enable/disable with the 'm' key. Don't depend on sound preferences to work correctly.

[Viper187]

Thanks. That did it. Sucks you can't rely on the GUI.