From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Christopher Head <alsa@chead.ca>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect name of PCM
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:40:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hin55zw8b.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F88318-0461-4587-AE9D-A885BB121ADC@chead.ca>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:21:59 +0200,
Christopher Head wrote:
>
> On July 23, 2018 9:15:59 AM PDT, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >Just ignore this entry. alsa-lib tries to parse the all possible
> >outputs that are provided from the kernel interface. Due to
> >historical reasons, this digital output might be either SPDIF or HDMI,
> >and alsa-lib has no knowledge to distinguish easily, hence both spdif
> >and hdmi device names are provided equally for such a case.
>
> Not here, they aren’t. There is no PCM named “spdif” at all: it isn’t in the list, and if I type it, I can’t play to it for a reason that looks a lot like it doesn’t exist.
OK, then another possibility is a BIOS bug. BIOS declares the pin as
HDMI incorrectly although it's a SPDIF.
Takashi
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-22 15:38 Incorrect name of PCM Christopher Head
2018-07-23 7:34 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-07-23 16:11 ` Christopher Head
2018-07-23 16:15 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-07-23 16:21 ` Christopher Head
2018-07-23 17:40 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2018-07-24 3:17 ` Christopher Head
2018-07-24 5:22 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-07-24 15:39 ` Christopher Head
2018-07-24 15:57 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-07-23 16:14 ` Christopher Head
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