It appears that I have to modprobe snd-card-rme96 manually for it to work (I faintly remember seeing something similar mentioned on the list, in the very beginning of my quest).
Hurray! aplay -D plughw:0,1 somefile.wav plays out to the ADAT port (and plughw:0,0 to the spdif)! However, a nasty volume-dependent click train can be heard (*not* on the spdif). The ADAT converter's lock led is on, though. I know the FOSTEX VC-8 is not the most stable around, but it performs flawlessly with my KORG digital mixer (@ 48kHz). The result is exactly the same when switching the VC-8 to internal clock (44.1kHz) or even when playing a 44.1kHz wave. Might be this 'route conversion'... Greetz, Janroel asound control.5 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type ENUMERATED comment.item.0 Optical comment.item.1 Coaxial comment.item.2 Internal iface PCM name 'Input Connector' value Optical } Playing WAVE 'somefile.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE) Transformation table: 0 <- 0 1 <- 1 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 48000 exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 4096 period_size : 512 period_time : 10666 tick_time : 10000 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 sleep_min : 0 avail_min : 512 xfer_align : 512 start_threshold : 0 stop_threshold : 4096 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 1073741824 Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'RME Digi96/8' device 1 subdevice -1 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 8 rate : 48000 exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 4096 period_size : 512 period_time : 10666 tick_time : 10000 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 sleep_min : 0 avail_min : 512 xfer_align : 512 start_threshold : 0 stop_threshold : 4096 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 1073741824 On Tue, 18 Dec 01 18:30:45 +0100 vanDongen/Gilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can check that in the /etc/asound.state the input is defined as > optical, if you plan to use the optical io. The default is set to > coaxial, and trying to open the ADAT device for input gives an error > because it can't open the coaxial input in ADAT mode. Simply edit the > file with a text editor, and do alsactl restore. > Maybe this will help > > > Gerard > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- ________________________________________________________________ | | Janroel Koppen, (+31)(0)15-27.86224 | Information & Communication Theory Group, | Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands | [EMAIL PROTECTED], www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~janroel |_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user