Fedora, Alsa, and SPDIF

[robertlaferla at comcast.net (robertlaferla at comcast.net)]

I was able to get sound working but not thru the SPDIF digital output on my Shuttle SN41G2 (nVidia nForce chipset + Intel 810 sound chip)  Sounds play fine thru the headphone jack.  Maybe my system is using OSS instead of ALSA?  Help!

Here are some error messages and other configuration details:

/alsasound restart
Starting sound driver: snd-intel8x0 /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod snd-intel8x0 failed

% alsamixer
 
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

% alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1061: No soundcards found...

% lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
i810_audio             27048   0  (unused)
ac97_codec             17064   0  [i810_audio]
soundcore               6500   2  [i810_audio]
snd-page-alloc         10068   0  (autoclean)
sg                     35852   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 17752   0  (autoclean)

etc...


modules.conf:

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.3 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
 
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :