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[Craig Dyke <grail AT westnet.com.au>]

Howdy All

I have recently upgraded my mobo and it has an inbuilt sound card and a 
spdif output.

Under windblows I have to use the spdif output as I have digital only 
speakers.
I was wondering if anyone else has been in this boat with our distro and 
would know how to
get it to work?

So far the only reference I can find says that I need the cvs version of 
alsa as the normal one
doesn't create a /dev/alsa directory with settings to recognise the spdif.
The reference is some years old but I have been unable to find another.

Would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction :)

Info:

Mobo:   Epox 8KDA3+ (Socket 754 amd64) NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset, 
with digital output using Realtek ALC850
Sound card module comes up as intel8x0

Craig