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G'day, I have set up my Asys e45m-1 deluxe htpc w/ XBMCbuntu Eden but cannot get sound from the spdif. I have it hooked up to optical, that goes to my digital amplifier. I just need 2 channel stereo from it. From the looks of it, there is a signal to lock onto (amp shows this) however no sound is being produced. I have tried all possible combinations of outputs in Settings. aplay -l output is below.


Anyone care to shed some light on this? Thanks in advance,

try plughw:1,1 and hw:1,1 for passthrough. disable menu sounds, unmute in alsamixer.

or, much better, go for a Frodo build.
some reading for your hardware: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=116996

Ok, so I created /etc/asound.conf


but what settings do I use in XBMC?

you don't really need an asound.conf, just select custom device in xbmc and input what I wrote above.

Cheers! That worked perfectly.