My VDR PC main board broke last Sunday, so I bought an Abit NF7 main board,
which is nforce2-based and has LAN and an optical SPDIF out on board -
perfect for VDR, I thought.
Analog sound is working fine and light is coming out of the SPDIF output,
my receiver also indicates that it detects the carrier, but I hear no
sound at all.
Alsamixer only displays 3 IEC958-related settings, I tried all
possible combinations of these 3.
Do I also have to play with controls like "3D Control" or "Surround"?
I am running SuSE 8.2 with the SuSE 2.4.20 kernel.
I updated from the Alsa drivers that came with the SuSE system to the
latest 0.9.6 from ftp.alsa-project.org, but that did not help.
Has anyone out here successfully got SPDIF out to work on an nforce2
main board?
Any hints what I could try next?