Hi Alexander! > Actually I think there is enough information in the original mail for me to > guess why, but still, please provide the information I have asked for. The > problem is that your card, which is based on the ICE1712 chipset, does not > expose the 7.1 output and the second spdif output via the stock ALSA card > file. I.e., the "surround71:1" and "spdif:1,1" devices don't exist, and that > needs to be fixed in alsa-lib. > > You can test the theory by running these two commands: > > pasuspender -- speaker-test -t wav -c6 -D surround51:1 % pasuspender -- speaker-test -t wav -c6 -D surround51:1 speaker-test 1.0.27.2 Playback device is surround51:1 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels WAV file(s) Sample format not available for playback: Invalid argument Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument > pasuspender -- speaker-test -t wav -c8 -D surround71:1 % pasuspender -- speaker-test -t wav -c8 -D surround71:1 speaker-test 1.0.27.2 Playback device is surround71:1 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 8 channels WAV file(s) ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ICE1712.pcm.surround71.0:CARD=1' ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4727:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:1 Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory -mz
