2010-10-16, 01:04
Quote:Those who have been plagued with broken ALSA upgrades and unsupported soundcards will be happy to know that these issues have been resolved.
Not really.
I was having issues with beta 2, so you could imagine my happiness when I read this line.
Unfortunately, no matter what combination of settings I use, my Yamaha receiver at the other end of my toslink fiber (creative x-fi live drive toslink output) will only emit nasty pulsating static, at best. I had a thread going where a kind member was trying to assist me, however after dancing around for weeks with alsa configurations, asoundrc tricks, "what does aplay -l say" responses and many, many beers, I just wanna know...
Has anyone else ever been able to successfully get DTS / Dolby Digital or (lord help us) even DD PLIIex signals to pass through from a creative x-fi sound card?
It should also be noted that downloading mplayer and issuing the command -hwac3 will work perfectly as it should with any file I throw at it, lighting up all the speakers with no goofy downmixing / analog fakery and sound great.