I trouble to solve several troubles : 1/ When I kill pulseaudio, it is launch by applications that need sound. I managed to get a "working alsa output" by removing vlc-plugin-pulse package, set output to alsa in VLC, kill gnome-volume-control-applet, pulseaudio -k, and the run VLC again. At this step I think the next trouble prevent me to get it working.
2/ I have 2 sound cards in my system so by disabling pulseaudio the first sound card is used (a stereo intergrated card). So I removed the module used by integrated sound card to get only this $ LANG=C aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 1: Aureon51MkII [Aureon5.1MkII], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 => Running VLC with your sample file give me no sound output at all on my amplifier. I ran these tests on Ubuntu 10.04 alpha2 only. The informations you've added helped me to understand what happened, even if I can't get it working yep, so thanks. Is there a way to check how alsa detect my optical output ? -- S/Pdif / digital output not available in pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205717 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs