Getting ALSA to work???

[Skywatch]

Hi,

I have spent all afternoon trying to do this with no success. RC3 XBMC 13.2 ....My set-up is in my user profile and I have checked the wiki.

I have tried to add alsa so as to be able to use the I2S for an external DAC.

At first I got errors about dependencies on alsa-utils and alsa-base. I installed these as per instructions on a thread in the forum here.

Now via SSH in xbian-config I see alsa available as an upgrade, so I select it and it appears to install successfully (no error or warning messages). Then reboot.

After reboot there's nothing in the system menu to select alsa output (just analog and hdmi) and when I go back into SSH xbian-config, alsa is still there as an available upgrade! - I have gone in this circle 13 times now!!! - I have also tried installing via the XBMC xbian update menu, with the same result (I guess its just a different front end for the same commands).

If I try to install alsa-utils or alsa-base it tells me that they are already intalled. But Lsmod doesn't show anything 'alsa' afaik.

So please, for the love of music, how do I get alsa working properly?

Thanks!

Skywatch