How to make S/PDIFF work (x86)

Audio Gear DACs
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Hello everyone,

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For the last few years I have been using the ‘Daphile’ software with an old Compaq desktop pc, and its been working fine except for constant network connection problems. So I decided to try the latest Volumio for the x86 PC and it all loaded up and installed flawlessly. Everything seems to work great (including audio coming from the on-board sound card) but I cannot get a peep from my DAC, which is a Linn Numerik connected via coax to the built in S/PDIFF socket on the PC. This setup works fine with Daphile so I know my DAC works ok with Linux.
Just wondering if there’s a setting I need to tweak? In Daphile I just had to make sure that the S/PDIFF box was ticked in the mixer settings, but there is no such option for this in the mixer settings in Volumio.[size=1]100001.onl/ 1921681254.mx/ acc.onl/hotmail[/size]

Hoping you can help me please.

Regards.

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Edited your title to include x86, so hopefully those working on these things will pick up on it.

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Could you supply me with the results of

aplay -l and

lspci