Comment 24 for bug 359361

Looks like the ALSA bug tracker is down. I have reuploaded syscrash2k's patch here: http://fjerhammer.dk/ad1988_spdif_crackling.patch (MD5: 105db6f90cb09c7d90aae8fda1410795)

This problem is still present in kernel 3.5. Every Linux user with a ASUS P5*/P6* motherboard that I know of has pretty much given up on digital audio due to this bug. The patch, however, fixes it for me.

I don't know if any ALSA developers are watching this bug tracker, but I cannot understand why this bug hasn't at least been looked into yet. Especially P5Q and P6T have been great sellers in the last couple of years, which means that quite a lot of computers out there are unable to use S/PDIF outputs on Linux without excessive distortion.