Speaker question

["William W. Austin" <waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My wife is planning to "surprise" me with a new set of speakers for my  
main linux box (she's a professional musician), and she wants to get me  
the Logitech Z-5500 digital speakers (I'm using an Audigy2 ZS card with  
some older 5.1 speakers which are failing).  I like the sound, but I  
don't want to shell out that much if most of the "features" are  
inaccessible under linux.

Does anybody have any experience with these on fedora (alsa) - features  
that don't work or that (surprisingly) do?  In particular has anyone  
had any luck hooking up both the optical *and* coax (so that I can  
share the speakers with a second system)?  And finally is the Dolby  
decoding accessible under linux?

(I've been trying to find this info in other places for a week and  
suddenly realized that I had forgotten this list.)

Thanks,

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William W. Austin                                 waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 "Life is just another phase I'm going through. this time, anyway ..."