Trying to get sound to work on digital in

[mikebailey]

Alright, just installed maverick, got the sound to work great on the 7.1 with pulseaudio. works great in movies, and everything else just wonderfully. the only thing i am stumped by is how to get the sound to loop from my digital input on my soundcard to my analog speakers also on the same soundcard. i know the sound feed works on the input as the makeshift VU meter/bar on my digital input in the sound preferences moves, but i can't get the sound to actually come through on my speakers. any help would be appreciated. thank you in advance.

[mikebailey]

bump??

anyone with some info on this yet? its the onboard alc889a chipset.

[mikebailey]

i am also having this problem. i have a creative labs xtremem music pci-e version. i can get the sound to work with aplay | arecord with the right variables in there, but it is horrifically lagged and gets worse the longer i use it. i am attempting to use the optical spdif input on my soundcard and have the sound loop out to my analog 5.1 output on the same card. i have tried many articles and the help they have provided, but am still at the same place i was in the beginning, and that is i cannot get it to loop through with no lag. this seems to be a very common issue, and yet, there is very little help in the community on how to resolve this issue. i would love to use ubuntu full time, but with this one issue nagging me, i cannot use it full time yet. i hope that a resolution to this issue could come quickly. i know this post is over 2 years old, but the person who originally asked the question had not been answered yet. thank you for your time, and i will post anything that needs to be posted, just help a fellow out here, throw me a bone or something!!