After ages and ages of googling, reinsalling alsa, restarting I tried this and it works again
Opened an ac3 video in xine listened briefly dragged an mp3 onto xine pressed next the mp3 played closed xine now my spdif works fine might be random but hopefully... a solution -- Alsa loses AC'97 SPDIF output in Feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118861 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
