spdif/iec958 stopped working

[Konstantin Svist]

Bump...
Still have the problem and still having to use analog audio (with
humming noise in the high levels)
I've confirmed that the receiver works with optical audio & also updated
pulse from yum today - still no dice.


Konstantin Svist wrote:
> $ uname -a
> Linux lain 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:08:10 EDT
> 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> # lspci -vvv -s 00:08.0
> 00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio
> (rev b1)
>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82fe
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
>         Region 0: Memory at fbe78000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
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> It used to work just fine in both analog & IEC958 modes. It was working
> as of night of 4/29-4/30.
> Overnight, however, the / filled up due to several large xbmc core
> dumps. Last night the sound stopped working, which led me to discover
> the filled up partition. After cleaning up about a gig, the digital
> sound still doesn't work. Analog sound works just fine, though.
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> Somewhat interesting to note - when I enable IEC958 in the volume
> control panel, the receiver switches from analog mode. (the computer is
> an HTPC, both analog & digital outputs go to the receiver). I suppose
> it's possible that the receiver died, but I feel software cause is much
> more likely.
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> I didn't find any smoking guns in /var/log/messages - the only
> audio-related message was about pulse not being able to run with real
> time priority (which is normal, from what I gather)
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