Using Optical Out AND Analog Out

[Asnrefugee]

I am trying to see if its possible to have a setup where on a PC soundcard, you have your normal 5.1 anlog outputs, or 7.1 depending on the card, and an optical_out. In this case I am reffering to a standard onboard 5.1 Realtek Ac97 onboard sound card. I want to see if its possible to have a sub hooked into the SUB/CENTER anlog port, AND have the monitors, or reciever or whatever accepts optical, having sound comming in on the optical line. So hooking both up.
The enviroment would be two Digital Optical monitors, (L/R) and a sub hooked up via the SUB/CENTER output found on the sound card. It depends wether the sound card can handle both outputs.

This is in refference to the Realtek Ac97 Onboard Audio found on many intel I875 chipset motherboards.

 

[Treyshadow]

I am havin a hard time visualizing what you are talking about.

Do you have An optical in and an optical out?

Plus you want the sub on the analog channel?

The monitors/speakers are optical/digital?


If you want sound from the analog ports, and sound from the optical/digital port at the same time, that is possible, however it causes noise on the analog side. This may not be bad using just the sub, but in higher frequencies, it will be audibly difficult to listen to. Also all sound management on a digital connection has to come from the receiver, or the software application (like power dvd), not from the OS.

So Computer Optical --> Receiver --> 5 or 7 speakers
and
Computer analog --> center/sub should create sound (noisy sound)

If the software for the particular AC97 implementation contains a digital out only button, this is not possible.