alsa-project/alsa-lib issue #48 was edited from burningd0g: It would be greatly apreciated to add the iec958 correct device in the default USB-Audio.conf for the Xonar USB sound card : USB-Audio.pcm.iec958_device { ... "ASUS XONAR U5" 1 "XONAR U5" 1 ... } It would prevent me (and maybe some other people) to freak out on why it doesn't work out of the box! :) I know the issue is also present on the U7 but i don't have all the possible device name for it. Thanks! Issue URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/48 Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib