at first, thanks alot for the help.
perhaps i "not see the wood for the trees" (is this right in english). wanna 
say, perhaps im just too stupid...

here are some debuggin outputs, for just to be sure that alsa works for me:

cat /dev/urandom >/dev/dsp works, get this funny white noise out of my speakers.

alsamixer screen:
----------------------------------
Card: C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6
Chip: CMedia PCI
View: [Playback] Capture  All
Item: Master
----------------------------------

$ cat /proc/asound/devices
  0: [ 0]   : control
  4: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
 18: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback
 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
 26: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
 33:        : timer
 
$ cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-02: CMI8738-MC6 : C-Media PCI IEC958 : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: CMI8738-MC6 : C-Media PCI 2nd DAC : playback 1
00-00: CMI8738-MC6 : C-Media PCI DAC/ADC : playback 1 : capture 1

--------------
without -ao:
--------------
Dec 24 20:57:32 gockels-video vdr: [4525] [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa 
device default
Dec 24 20:57:32 gockels-video vdr: [4525] [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 
device hw:0,1
Dec 24 20:57:33 gockels-video vdr: [4525] [softdevice-audio] Playback open 
error: default, No such device FATAL exiting
--------------
with -ao alsa:pcm=default
--------------
Dec 24 20:59:19 gockels-video vdr: [4698] [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa 
device default
Dec 24 20:59:19 gockels-video vdr: [4698] [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 
device hw:0,1
Dec 24 20:59:19 gockels-video vdr: [4698] [softdevice-audio] Playback open 
error: default, No such device FATAL exiting
--------------
with -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=default#
--------------
Dec 24 21:01:37 gockels-video vdr: [4977] [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa 
device default
Dec 24 21:01:37 gockels-video vdr: [4977] [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 
device hw:0,1
Dec 24 21:01:37 gockels-video vdr: [4977] [softdevice-audio] Playback open 
error: default, No such device FATAL exiting
--------------
with -ao dummy:
--------------
Dec 24 21:03:30 gockels-video vdr: [5290] [softdevice-audio-dummy] Device 
opened! Ready to play

so, its true, i've no spdif output on this card. but when you can tell 
softdevice what $dev_name (as mentioned in the softdevice readme) it should use 
for ac3 output (for it insists on using this), where do i get the $dev_name 
from?
my driver is called cmipci, doesn't work.
/dev/dsp or audio doesn't work either...
xine can do a down-mix, and i get sound from vdr with xine plugin for example.
on the other hand, there was a time, when i had 5 speaker connected to this 
card and heard nice digital surround sound from a dvd.

i just can't get the idea behind all this (did i said this things about my 
foolischness?) 
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