Specialist Requested

[Andy Pieters]

Hi all

I am wondering where I can find a specialist in Xine, Alsa, and RedHat Fedora 
for the problem seems to be somewhere in the way those three interact.

If you know of such a specialist on another mailing list, or site, please let 
me know.

This is the problem I'm facing

I have a soundcard with digital output which is connected to a Dolby Surround 
Decoder by means of a coaxial cable that costs $30.

Sound was working and I could hear system sounds and amaroK playing my 
favorite songs.

When I put on a dvd in xine, the sound was in 5.1 surround stereo while muting 
the system sounds (and amaroK).  This muting and unmuting was done 
automatically by xine (?)

At one point a damaged dvd caused xine to hang and I killed it.  At which 
point sound no longer worked, except when putting on a dvd in xine.  Then 
sound does work in 5.1

A warm reboot didn't solve anything and neither did a cold one.  The sound 
decoder was rebooted as well.

Now the only way for me to get system sounds and amaroK is by running an 
analog cable between the speaker-out and the analog-in of the decoder.

It seems to me that the digital output is somehow blocked in SPDIF mode and 
playing with the mixer settings didn't solve this problem.

Does anyone reckognize this problem.


With kind regards


Andy

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