I have been a happy Lint Mint 17.3 user for some time, and since the very beginning I have been using PulseAudio for everything sonic. Recently I acquired a Asus Xonar DG sound card, because I was eager to get 5.1 Surround sound for my PC. So far, I have failed to achieve this - I can get analog sound, but no digital sound, and I wish I could get the reason why.
Here is my output for "sudo lspci -v | grep -A7 -i audio":
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01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fba (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 3202
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f7080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
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05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen
Of course, I have pavucontrol installed. However, in its Configuration tab, the only options offered to me for the Xonar card are of type "Analog 5.1" and "Digital" (without 5.1). And the "Digital" ones don't work at all.# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
# USA.
## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out. Use either ; or # for
## commenting.
; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11
; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5
; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
resample-method = speex-float-1
; enable-remixing = yes
; enable-lfe-remixing = no
enable-lfe-remixing = yes
flat-volumes = no
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 1000000
; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
default-sample-format = s24le
default-sample-rate = 192000
default-sample-channels = 6
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10
; enable-deferred-volume = yes
deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 1
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
One interesting thing: I tried to change the S/PDIF settings via alsamixer, saving the changes via "alsactl store". Not only it had no effect, but my S/PDIF setting wasn't event saved!
Thanks in advance for all the enlightenment you can bring to me on that matter!
Best regards!