Adam Williamson wrote:
"Adam, you are misunderstanding how SPDIF in ALSA works. The
special
device "spdif:" will toggle all mixer controls appropriately. It will
hence work properly an all cards -- and if it doesn't it's an ALSA bug.
Hence the profile logic PA exposes should provide *complete* SPDIF
experience -- fiddling with low level alsa mixer controls should never
be necessary."
Which almost begs one to ask: what happens when there are two orthogonal
boolean controls involved? Four "profiles" to cover them?