while the follow OK then, does anyone have the spdif output of the card working? Is it even possible. I'm sure i've read posts on forums where people have mentioned it working. If anyone does maybe they could send me their alsa config files? It seems such ashame to not have use of this port. Thanks again Andrew

Andrew, I have an Audiophile 24/96 and SPDIF is working for me. How are you testing it? Are you trying to output or input audio? I use it with Jack and the envy24control. It depends on what you want to do, but in my case I use the SPDIF out to output to my digital monitors and the input to receive from a M-Audio Duo that I use as an external A/D converter. Because I want to listen to everything coming out from the card through the monitors, I set the SPDIF to output the Digital Mix master. You can do this by going to the "Patchbay/Router" tab inside envy24control, and setting to "Digital Mix L" and "Digital Mix R" under the "S/PDIF Out" column for both L and R channels. You have to make sure that the PCM Out 1 and 2 is not muted and the volume set to the right level inside the "Monitor PCMs" tab (it uses a not very standard way of dealing with the channels by having two faders per channel instead of one single fader and a panning fader, so the way I have it is the right PCM Out 1 and left PCM Out 2 faders muted). If what you want is to output directly form an audio software to the SPDIF outs then in Jack you have to route to playbak_9 and playback_10 (I haven't find a way for alsa to display the real number of physical outputs). If you have any question, let me know! I hope this helps. Hector andrew gatt wrote: