From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip A. Prindeville" Subject: Re: How to fix "Invalid type for PCM iec958:"? Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:18:37 -0600 Message-ID: <42EE4B5D.20202@redfish-solutions.com> References: <42EBDAC2.9080605@redfish-solutions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.redfish-solutions.com (mail.redfish-solutions.com [71.36.29.88]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 1CF1718F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:18:39 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click