On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 17:18 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:09 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:32 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > >> What happens now if I do > > >> aplay -D spdif something.wav > > >> ? Most certainly not the soundcard with the S/PDIF output gets used. > > >> Instead some nonsense happens. > > >> > > > > > > It will try to play to the spdif interface on card 0 (the onboard one) > > > which will fail. > > > > > > aplay -D spdif:1 something.wav should DTRT. > > > > aplay -D spdif:1 -f cdr /tmp/mnt/wo1.dat > > ALSA lib confmisc.c:990:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition > > 'cards.USB-Audio.pcm.iec958.0:CARD=1,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2' > > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer > > returned error: No such file or directory > > ALSA lib conf.c:3948:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or > > directory > > ALSA lib pcm.c:2090:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM spdif:1 > > aplay: main:533: audio open error: No such file or directory > > now that's what i call a sick joke. > > if only i had more time, i'd be writing CoreAudio for linux right this > very second.
1) Eliminate alsa-lib 2) Put jackd in kernel 3) Profit! -DR-
