Quote Originally Posted by NikiBob
Please try add
to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
thx for your suggestion. However, it did not solve the problem this way. But it brought some new ideas to me. I could remember, that the alsa-util "amixer" was able to activate the IEC958 (spdif) . However, all those simple mixer programs, including "aumix" were'nt able to activate this very unique sound channel form my Hoontech XG yamaha chipset.

The solution: download the alsa-util package using the "-d" option from apt-get, which will only download but NOT install the package. If downloaded, depack it your self and install "amixer" by hand. Then you put this in bootmisc.sh

Code:
%amixer -q set IEC958 on
and voila, everything is fine. But don't forget to add your local user to the audio group in /etc/group

\thomsen