I am just chiming in that I have a Dell Studio Slim 540s with the same issue. I have installed ALSA 1.0.18rc3 and have lockups when attempting to unmute the IEC958 device. I was able to successfully unmute the device in 1.0.17, however it had no audible effect.
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