Hello all, I hope someone can help with this problem. I am trying to enable the PCM (optical) output of my ABIT-AN7 motherboard on Mandrake 10.1 Official. The sound seems to be working fine, but I have the Optical out plugged into my DTS/DD receiver and would like to be able to watch DVD's with full Surround sound. The problem is I have no idea how to enable the PCM output. I am using ALSA and Xine works fine through the analog output. [root@farwest root]# lsmod Module Size Used by nfsd 189408 8 exportfs 4736 1 nfsd lockd 58344 2 nfsd sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 16 snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 6080 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 47440 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 49480 0 snd-mixer-oss 17376 2 snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 30124 2 snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm 81800 3 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0 snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm gameport 3328 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart 5856 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-rawmidi 19300 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 6344 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 45988 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 7008 2 snd af_packet 16072 0 floppy 55088 0 eth1394 17000 0 forcedeth 14400 0 ide-cd 37280 0 cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd ohci1394 30788 0 ieee1394 292056 2 eth1394,ohci1394 loop 12520 0 supermount 34804 2 xfs 567160 1 sd_mod 19232 3 nvidia 3462972 12 nvidia-agp 5788 1 agpgart 27752 2 nvidia-agp sata_sil 5380 2 libata 38308 1 sata_sil scsi_mod 104044 2 sd_mod,libata tsdev 5824 0 evdev 7648 0 usbmouse 4256 0 usbhid 41088 0 ehci-hcd 26244 0 ohci-hcd 18468 0 usbcore 103172 6 usbmouse,usbhid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd reiserfs 258324 8 ---------------- [root@farwest root]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1) 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) 01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900] (rev a1) ---------------- If anyone can shed some light on this question I would be very grateful. Thanks to all. -- Donn "Sarcasm is the safe alternative to expressing anger." --Richard North Patterson --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss