Lennart, I need to use the spdif port, as this computer is attached to a DTS decoder/receiver. I've tried "device=spdif:0", "device=iec958:0", "device=surround51:0", all of which give the same error. I don't have access to the computer right now, but I can dump the message for each of those cases. Jim "Lennart Poettering" <lennart at poettering.net> wrote in message news:20080326004556.GB20853 at tango.0pointer.de... > On Mon, 24.03.08 15:58, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > >> I've just upgraded from 0.9.6 to 0.9.8 (FC7 to FC8 distribution). >> >> I'm having trouble with a basic setup. I'm getting back "Invalid value for card". >> >> See anything wrong? >> > > Sounds like an ALSA issue to me. Why do you open hw:0,2? You shouldn't > fiddle around with subdevices manually. Also, please use "front:0", > "surround51:0", ... as device strings instead of the raw "hw:0" which > doesn't carry any information about the channel map of a device. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4