smi402
August 4th, 2008, 12:02 AM
I have been running a Mythbuntu frontend on a motherboard that has an Intel ALC662 sound chip. I have a SPDIF optical output attached to the ALC662 header on the motherboard that serves as the optical input into my Home Theatre 5.1 amplifier. However, although the analog outputs on the ALC662 work fine I can't get the optical digital output to work under Hardy 8.04 with the 2.6.24-19 kernel. After "Googling around" I note that there is a bug in the 2.6.24 kernel that results in the IEC958 device from being displayed with aplay -L and appearing in alsamixer so this device can't be unmuted in order to activate the SPDIF port. Apparently this bug (#475441) has been fixed in the 2.6.25 kernel, which I guess will be released as 2.6.26 once its stability has been confirmed.
I would be grateful if someone could inform us ALC662 SPDIF users when a suitable 2.6.26 kernel may appear in the repositories. In the meantime can someone point me to a site for a stable version of 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 that I can test.
Frank :(
I would be grateful if someone could inform us ALC662 SPDIF users when a suitable 2.6.26 kernel may appear in the repositories. In the meantime can someone point me to a site for a stable version of 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 that I can test.
Frank :(