On Tue, 2026-03-03 at 16:57 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > I'm tired of fighting with plugins to make toslink work on my "didn't > pay for dolby" motherboard, or having my hdmi audio treated like > video. > > ...[snip]... > > I've done this before on an old motherboard that didn't disable the > TOSlink surround. This motherboard, it just doesn't work, even under > Windows.
It doesn't work with Windows with motherboard drivers, or Windows with what it can do by itself? I think *that* may indicate your problem. It's probably really going to depend on your TOSLINK hardware if it uses some special custom ICs to drive the port. If it's just basic hardware to modulate the light, then it could be completely dependent on what your software can do. Tangentially... I have an outboard multi-channel USB sound device, a Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820 (*). There's no special drivers, Linux always presumes it's a surround sound device (**) rather than some generic multichannel thing, and gives me no other configuration choices. * Multi-channel input, multi-channel output, analogue and digital. ** Front left, front center, front right Side left, side right Rear left, LFE, rear right. Most sources just play left and right stereo audio, but given an application that can play surround sound, it's potentially 8-channel audio. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
