No sound from vortexbox player

[garfy117]

Hi,
my vortexbox player seems to have stopped working - it shows as playing but no sound comes out. I'm using a digital spdif output from an atom based vortexbox, and have tried various combinations of hw & device to no avail...grateful for any suggestions!
Thanks,
Gareth

[Macross]

Check your settings in alsamixer and make sure that the digital output is unmuted, use plughw 0,1 or plughw 1,1 depending on the assignment on your vortexbox player configuration page. Make sure you save your alsamixer settings by issuing a alsactl store "#" where the number corresponds to the number assigned by alsa starting at 0.

[garfy117]

Thank you for the help. I've checked alsamixer and the digital out seems ok (it shows a little symbol rtaher than "mm"). Can I just type "plughw 1,1" rather than the "hw:1,1" the help icon suggests into the config page?

As you can tell, I'm somewhat bewildered by the whole alsa devices thing!

[garfy117]

My outputs from aplay-l and -L are:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0



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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

[andrew]

plughw:0,1 is your device

You need to type this device in EXACTLY like I have it here or it won't work.

[garfy117]

Thanks. I tried copying and pasting that in but still no joy (What's the significance of the "plug" prefix?). Most puzzling!

[andrew]

You need to unmute it using alsamixer.

[garfy117]

Cheers. It does appear to be showing as unmuted though (ie has the little green "infinity" symbol next to the spdif). Is there something else I need to check?

[Macross]

Try iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 instead of plughw:0,1

[garfy117]

Ta; same result (is there anything I need to do other than submit and restart squeezebox server after each change I try?)