In my PC I have two options to get sound. 1 is from the graphics card over HDMI, 2nd is the built-in audio. The built-in audio has analog and digital ports. I want to use the optical S/PDIF to transfer the audio to my reciever.

When I go to the Audio and Video settings -> tab Audio Hardware setup, I can only select Analog Stereo Output. Why isn't the digital audio output availible? According the aplay -l output below the device is working.

I'm using Fedora 20 and I used to have this setup working. I'm not sure what changed.

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#aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: VT1828S Analog [VT1828S Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 2: VT1828S Alt Analog [VT1828S Alt Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: VT1828S Digital [VT1828S Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


I tried booting without my /home mounted, this way sounds works as usual. So there must be a config file that causes this, but which one?

Can someone point me to the file that might be causing this?

The presence of the Audio Hardware Setup tab indicates you are using Pulseaudio. Please try removing ~/.config/pulse outside of KDE, without Pulseaudio running.

Thanks for the answer, but it didn't work.

I renamed .kde/ and .asoundrc, and that worked.
Now I only have to reconfigure KDE.

Okay. In this case I suspect it was the ~/.asoundrc file which was preventing Pulseaudio from detecting the digital audio output - nothing within ~/.kde/ should have the ability to influence Pulseaudio to that level.