I had to leave this for a while but I still cannot get this to work!!! I follow these instructions http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=253179
and from aplay -l I see: card 2: Ed [Xonar U7 Echelon Ed.], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: Ed [Xonar U7 Echelon Ed.], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: Ed [Xonar U7 Echelon Ed.], device 2: USB Audio [USB Audio #2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 So unmute it with amixer -c2 sset 'IEC958 In' on and check it works with speaker-test -Dhw:2,1 -c2 which works fine trying mplayer mplayer -afm hwac3 -ao alsa:device=hw=2.1 test.mp3 and yes - excellent sound out of the SPDIF Sothe only thing that does not work is my change to USB-Audio.conf I edit USB-Audio.conf and add the line "Xonar U7 Echelon Ed." 1 as below USB-Audio.pcm.iec958_device { # "NoiseBlaster 3000" 42 "Xonar U7 Echelon Ed." 1 # The below don't have digital in/out, so prevent them from being opened. "Blue Snowball" 999 "HP Digital Stereo Headset" 999 "Logitech Speaker Lapdesk N700" 999 "Logitech USB Headset" 999 "Logitech Wireless Headset" 999 "Plantronics GameCom 780" 999 "Plantronics USB Headset" 999 "Plantronics Wireless Audio" 999 "SB WoW Headset" 999 "Scarlett 2i2 USB" 999 "Sennheiser USB headset" 999 "USB Device 0x46d:0x992" 999 } restart alsa and it DOES NOT WORK I try speaker-test -Diec958:CARD=Ed,DEV=0 -c2 and get the following output speaker-test 1.0.27.2 Playback device is iec958:CARD=Ed,DEV=0 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer size range from 32 to 262144 Period size range from 16 to 131072 Using max buffer size 262144 Periods = 4 was set period_size = 65536 was set buffer_size = 262144 0 - Front Left ... but NO sound I check speaker-test -Dhw:2,1 -c2 I get the same output WITH sound So the problem appears to be the edit of USB-Audio.conf is not setting iec958 to device 1. Any further thoughts would be appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1498129 Title: Asus Xonar U7 S/PDIF output not recognized by pulseaudio To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1498129/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs