[mythtvnz] cmi8738

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Simon Green <simon at simongreen.name> wrote:
> 2009/5/4 Garrett Stoupe <garrett.stoupe at gmail.com>:
>> Has anyone managed to get the spdif optical output running in ubuntu
>> 8.04 or higer? what rc.local commands did you use? what was your setup
>> using amixer?
>
> I had it running in my old system last year. These two pages helped me
> set it up:
>
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF
>
> Unfortunately it seems my new box (see yesterdays post) does not yet
> support the onboard S/PDIF connection. There is a bug in the alsa
> project which I am following relating to this. All my PCI ports are
> used, so I don't have room for an extra card.
>
>  -- simon


Actually I think

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/AllensDigitalAudioHowto

is the latest and best reference.