Comment 17 for bug 205717

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Achim (ach1m) wrote : Re: [Bug 205717] Re: S/Pdif / digital output not available in pulseaudio

Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 23:06 +0000 schrieb Id2ndR:
> I trouble to solve several troubles :
>
> 1/ When I kill pulseaudio, it is launch by applications that need sound.
> I managed to get a "working alsa output" by removing vlc-plugin-pulse
> package, set output to alsa in VLC, kill gnome-volume-control-applet,
> pulseaudio -k, and the run VLC again. At this step I think the next
> trouble prevent me to get it working.
>
> 2/ I have 2 sound cards in my system so by disabling pulseaudio the first sound card is used (a stereo intergrated card). So I removed the module used by integrated sound card to get only this $ LANG=C aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 1: Aureon51MkII [Aureon5.1MkII], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> => Running VLC with your sample file give me no sound output at all on my amplifier.
> I ran these tests on Ubuntu 10.04 alpha2 only.
>
> The informations you've added helped me to understand what happened,
> even if I can't get it working yep, so thanks.
>
> Is there a way to check how alsa detect my optical output ?

I think at this point it is better to ask the question at the alsa ML or
Pulseaudio ML.

Regards
Achim