No Digital audio?

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raid517
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No Digital audio?

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Hi, I am really impressed with Gentoox, it is a terrific piece of work. However I installed Gentoox on my xbox, so that I could listen to LastFMplayer on a very quiet system with full digital audio support.

Unfortunately digital audio support seems to be non functioning. This is a major set back - as I don't have any non digital audio equipment - and indeed I haven't listened to analogue sound on any of my home stereo components for over at least the last 7 years.

Is there a way to enable digital audio output in Gentoox on the xbox?

Speaking of LastFM player can anyone actually get it to work too?

http://www.last.fm/downloads.php


I can launch the app, but if I try to play any radio it will crash due to not being able to detect the sound properties of the card properly, or if I select to use it with an external player (as in use it as a streaming proxy server) it will simply spit an error message out on the command line saying 'proxy client disconnected.'

Has anyone got any clue what is going on?

GJ
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Post by raid517 »

Edit: resolved this issue by installing ALSA OSS Package and selecting OSS sound out in LastFM player - now lastFM player plays natively!

I still would welcome advice on getting digital sound working though....
>Speaking of LastFM player can anyone actually get it to work too?

>http://www.last.fm/downloads.php


>I can launch the app, but if I try to play any radio it will crash due to not >being able to detect the sound properties of the card properly, or if I select >to use it with >an external player (as in use it as a streaming proxy server) it will simply spit an error message out on the command line saying 'proxy client disconnected.'

>Has anyone got any clue what is going on?

GJ
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Post by raid517 »

I may just have found the answer to my other question too:

viewtopic.php?t=2778&highlight=digital

The problem is that I don't have a file in /etc/called:

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/etc/asound.conf
I do have a similarly named file in:

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/usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsasound.confd
So what gives?

Has anyone got any idea what file I should be editing?

GJ
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