On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 21:58 +1100, Jason White wrote: > As mentioned earlier, my initial goal is to be able to play a stereo sound > file (e.g., a wav file) via the first two ADAT channels of the first ADAT > interface on the Digi9652. > > If I run > aplay -D hw:1,0 file.wav > I get: > aplay: set_params:891: Access type not available > > I suspect that some kind of data format conversion may be necessary to yield > correct output but I'm not sure. Also, I searched the WEb for the above error > message but wasn't able to find any information. aplay -D plughw:1,0 file.wav this will actually put the output across all outputs, but it should accomplish most of what you want. to get just the first two channels, you will need to investigate the mysteries of the .asoundrc file and the "route" ALSA "plugin". ALSA "hw" devices are restricted to only formats that the underlying h/w supports; in this case, 26 channels of mono, non-interleaved, 24 bits packed into 32 bit samples. --p
