<div dir="ltr">I can confirm that there is no such setting in the BIOS. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov <<a href="mailto:patrakov@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrakov@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">08.07.2015 09:55, Raymond Yau wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > > Yesterday I got an interesting email related to dcaenc support. > > The person has an "XFX nForce 780i SLI" MCP board: <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_nforce_780i_sli_us.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_nforce_780i_sli_us.html</a> , <a href="http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/files/132-CK-NF78.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/files/132-CK-NF78.pdf</a> > > As you see on page 18 of the manual, this board has no HDMI output, but there is an optical SPDIF. Strangely enough, this SPDIF is his "hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0" device. > > Given the recent discussions related to dynamically creating PCM devices for HDMI, I think you will be interested in this alsa-info output. > > Is there anything here that would need special treatment by ALSA or PulseAudio? Or, is this just a misnumbered/misnamed codec? > Check whether BIOS set the internal spdif as HDMI as pin default The alsa driver prefer HDMI instead of SPDIF when there are two Digital Outs </blockquote> According to the manual, there is no such setting in the BIOS. (original reporter BCCed just in case) -- Alexander E. Patrakov </blockquote></div> </div>