I have been trying to configure my .asoundrc for almost ten hours now and i'm having a really hard time keeping calm at the moment.
Could someone PLEASE! give me some pointers on how to enable pcm audio via the spdif output. As well as spdif via the spdif output. I can't get the two working together at all.

Thanks

Peter

There is a wierd isue with also having locked files on some systems in /var/somethingorother... might want to check out the yoper linux forums, but basicly after you delete the temp files, and do an alsaconf and an alsactl store it works =P hope that helps, i would give better directions but its been like 2 years since i messed with alsa

Thanks for the tip! But unfortunatly it didn't help me.

Basically this is what my asoundrc looks like now.

pcm.ice1724 {
type hw
card 0
}

ctl.ice1724 {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "spdif"
}

It works great with stereo, but i have no clue on how to turn on passthrough via spdif.
I have seen loads of references to it but no clues on how to enable it.

/Peter

hi,
go
cat /proc/asound/devices
one of those digital audio playback devices is spdif
and one is analog
so for instance if one says
19: [0- 3]: digital audio playback
try that device with
aplay -D hw:0,3 file.wav
do this trial and error til you get the spdif output
so now you know the device number
so then just as an example if it was the one above (3)
i can't test before i type (sorry)
in reality like all code it would take me a while to get this right
i also don't really understand the first two pcm.rename because my card doesn't need those
so it may not be apropriate to add the line device to those so i left them commented out
i think try this

easier to just kill someone...

I was afraid someone would say that...

Does anyone else wish this guy had listed a location? *hides in corner* =P