Been battling this issue every night for the last month... the suggested fix of 'iecset audio true' worked "intermittedly" - when it didn't I was forced to create yet another install of Ubuntu Jaunty.
Discovered something VERY interesting that may save other pple some time - curious to know other pples opinion as I am relatively new to using SPDIF audio. this is what I did 1) Upgraded the latest kernel to 2.6.31-020631, as I found SPDIF less prone to requiring the iecset audio true command (I suspect the issue is with the Linux Kernel more so then ALSA). 2) Upgraded ALSA to .21 3) Once I got mythtv working happily using SPDIF audio from the local hard drive I quickly made my computer a diskless install (copied all operating system files onto a NFS mount (PXE image) onto my home server). The diskless install worked beautifully so I disconnected my local hard drive and decided to use this as a backup for when SPDIF would cease working again. 4) Low and behold SPDIF stopped working 2 days later (despite my attempts at using iecset audio true). Luckily (I thought) I had a fully tested working backup on the local hard drive... so I reconfigured the bios to boot from the local hard drive install, expecting things to work straight away. The computer started up as expected BUT a MASSIVE WTF => SPDIF audio STILL DID NOT WORK => from my prestine backup. 5) In my frustration, I turned my stereo amplifier off and the computer off for 1 hr and tried again later => Whola => SPDIF audio returned. Will continue testing.. but I'm completely confused by this. Any thoughts?? BTW: I'm running a single core Zotac Ion motherboard (NVidia ION chipset) and the latest trunk version of mythTV. Wayne -- SPDIF won't play PCM after playing AC3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25632 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
