Re: How to fix "Invalid type for PCM iec958:"?

["Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:

>At Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:53:38 -0600,
>Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>  
>
>>I've been seeing:
>>
>>alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 
>>AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02}
>>ALSA lib pcm.c:1851:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM 
>>iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02} definition (id: 
>>iec958, value: cards.pcm.iec958)
>>alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>>And went looking via Google if this is anything obvious.  I saw several
>>other postings about having the same issue, but no clear replies about
>>what causes it, or how to fix it.
>>
>>Should this be a FAQ question?  BTW:  What *is* the fix?
>>    
>>
>
>This depends on the hardware and driver you use.
>Most likely, the SPDIF I/O is not supported or defined in the system
>configuration.
>
>
>Takashi
>  
>

Ok, does anyone have a config file for a VIA8237?  And how does
the "private_string" get set and interpolated into:

                files [
                        {
                                @func concat
                                strings [
                                        { @func datadir }
                                        "/cards/"
                                        { @func private_string }
                                        ".conf"
                                ]
                        }
                ]

-Philip

-Philip



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