![]() Therefore, I “cloned” the desktop (as you will notice below). For Linux, I opted to have the same display on both – just because the only thing we use the TV for is watching movies and the like. In Windows, I could have both a monitor and a TV going with different pictures at the same time – which is called dual-head mode. This card has both a VGA connector and a TV-Out connector. Setup SiS Xabre 330 Video Card for Dual-Head Mode in Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid Now try to play something on your computer. Now click the “Switches” tab and ensure to put a check mark next to IEC958. The volume can be all the way down, that doesn’t matter. Back in the mixer, scroll over to the right (if needed) and ensure that the IEC958 is not muted. Click the “Preferences” button and put a check mark next to the IEC958 with Playback and Switches on the right-hand column and hit Close. In there, ensure your Alsa Mixer is selected again (mine shows as “NVidia CK8S (Alsa mixer)”). Next, right-click your Volume control on the top bar and choose Open Volume Control. For the Default Mixer Tracks, change the drop-down box to your Alsa-mixer (mine shows as “NVidia CK8S (Alsa MIxer)”) In the list of items, ensure “Master” is selected and close the window. Mine shows up as “NVidia CK8S with ALC655 NVidia CK8S – IEC958 (ALSA)”. ![]() In there, make sure you choose your IEC958 device for each of the items (except sound capture). You should now have sound through your SPDIF! If not, there are a few other things to check. Now, open up Firefox or something else that will play some kind of sound. Many other people try to completely remove PulseAudio or have very long instructions for a work-around, but this is a bit quicker.Įdit the /etc/pulse/default.pa file and add this line close to the other lines (around line 32): So for this, we have to change a few settings. This is because Ubuntu now uses the PulseAudio server to play music through the main system and PulseAudio only is setup to detect the primary card, but not the IEC958 / SPDIF output. I had trouble getting SPDIF output working on Linux. OK, those above are mostly to help people find this page to maybe alleviate some of their issues. ![]() Sound doesn’t work in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid SPDIF not working in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepidįirefox has no sound in Ubuntu 8.10 IntrepidĬoax output doesn’t work in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Let’s first start off with getting SPDIF output on Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid working. Please note that this setup is composed of several different parts and pieces – so if you are having various problems with audio, ac3 pass-through or dts pass-through in Ubuntu amongst other things, this might help a bit. This is specifically for the 32-bit installation as there are many applications that have trouble with the 64-bit installation (like the Sun Java and Adobe Flash plugins). Over the course of this time, I have researched on many different blogs and help forums to piece all of this together. I realize that the release of 9.04 is just right around the corner for Ubuntu, but I have been working on a project to convert the home theater PC from Windows to Linux for the past few weeks. ![]()
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