[nogetmedx]

I hvae a ASUS EEEBox EB1012 with the NVIDIA ION Chipset

My issue is that i cant get XBMC to play audio via TOSLINK/Optical

My setup is:

- Audio: TOSLINK/Optical from EB1012 to my Sourround reciver
- Video: HMDI from EB1012 to TV

The only way i can get any sound is if i set the audio output i XBMC to analog and HDMI (+ downmix to stereo) and then i set my sourround reciver to AUX (that way the sound flows from the EB1012 to the TV via HDMI and then to my reciver via phono resulting i 2.0 stereo sound - that sucks when you want 5.1 surround sound)

Can anyone help?

[JayWild]

I had a similar issue on my Zotac ION board with the new Karmic release. I had the audio set to digital and both sound options to iec958. I would hear the menu sounds but I got no sound from any movies and would just get a message about it being unable to start the audio device. I removed pulseaudio and everything now works fine.

Code:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

Not sure if its the best solution or would even fix your problem but it seemed to work for me.

[prae5]

Can you confirm what your audio settings are.

[nogetmedx]

I tried every combination.

I also triede the combination JayWild talked about Digital / iec958 / iec958

This way it started great with menu sounds i XBMC, and some sound when playing movies. but i discovered that only background sound was played.

then i tried switching around a bit i the settings, and ended up trying the Digital / iec958 / iec958 again and this time i only got alot of noise.

But i will try your suggestion when i get home today.

[nogetmedx]

Wuhuu... It worked... great... thanks JayWild

[hopester]

nogetmedx, how much noise does the EB1012 make? I'm looking to use one to run xbmc but only if its quiet.

Thanks.

[datafeilen]

It's very quiet...Can bearly hear it sitting 50 cm from it....
Other things to be aware of :
It has no IR receiver (I bought one USB CIR like the one in this thread. Works great!)
The blue led in front is pretty bright....maybe a bios update can fix this?
Had no problems installing XBMC on it. 1080p runs perfect.
I whish it had blueray and enough power to use a DVB-T TV card, then it would be a 100% perfect HTPC....