[pulseaudio-discuss] Sending all audio out S/PDIF

[Nasa]

----- "Lennart Poettering" <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 01.09.09 11:00, Nasa (nasa01 at comcast.net) wrote:
> 
> > 1. add option snd-intel8x0 ac97_quirk=3 to alsa-base in
> > /etc/modprobe.
> 
> Noe idea what the effect of this is.
> 
> > 2. add tsched=0 option to module-alsa-sink
> 
> This is ugly. And is just a workaround for a broken kernel driver.
> 
> > Do you know if these are good suggestions and/or if there are better
> ones?  
> 
> Yes, get a fixed kernel.
> 
> Lennart
Well,

I updated my kernel to 2.6.30 (the latest I could find) and tried again... 
Still crashes.  So I tried the tsched option and that does seem to work.

Will keep looking for an updated kernel with the appropriate fixes.

Nasa