[linux-audio-user] Recording from SPDIF with SB live

Hi linux-audio-users, I am a newbie in this list - so first of all hello to everybody! :-) Can anybody give me some hints about my following problem? I would like to record directly from my DAT recorder (48 kHz) via SPDIF. As a greenhorn in harddisk recording I expect that there should be a way to get an exact copy of the data on the tape with no input level / mixer and no DA-AD conversion in between?! Unfortunately so far I did not succeed in recording from the SPDIF-input at all. I am just able to route the DAT signal to the analog line out by setting its volume using alsamixer. But the SPDIF-in does not appear in other mixers like kmix and the signal is not available in recording programs like audacity or krecord. :-( I am using: - SuSE 8.2 / kernel 2.4.20 / i86 - alsa 0.9.0 - emu10k1 - Soundblaster live! rev. 4 Ciao, HippiE