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    8920G SPDIF/headphone-jacket not working?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by MKultra72, Oct 1, 2008.

  1. MKultra72

    MKultra72 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone gotten sound from the SPDIF/headphone-jacket? I've connected a digital cable to this jacket to my reciever but i dont get any sound at all. I've changed to "Realtek Digital Out" in the sound options. Maybe there's some setting to switch this from analog(headphone) to SPDIF or maybe this is done automaticly?

    I really hope i dont need to buy a HDMI-reciever to get digital out from this laptop, already spent much on this laptop heh
     
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    are you using a standard 3.5mm jack to stereo phono or the mini TOSlink to TOSlink (Optical)

    Realtek digital out will only work if you're using the latter.
     
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    iirc you can get the adapters and standalone cables from Dabs.co.uk, not sure about abroad though. I haven't bothered yet myself as I had 3 jack-RCA leads lying around - set it to 5.1 and plug it into the reciever using the "external decoder" inputs
     
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    Thats the one, optisk must be another name for what I call the MiniToslink
     
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    ok, thanks a lot :)
     
    MKultra72, Oct 3, 2008
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