[mythtv] No Video

[John S Flowers]

You are correct sir.

No errors, but the /dev/dsp device is busy. I'll try ALSA (which is the 
recommended thing to use) and see if that fixes the problem.

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 04:59  PM, Isaac Richards wrote:

> On Monday 16 December 2002 05:49 pm, J Flowers wrote:
>> I've seen this issue mentioned in the archives, but I still haven't
>> been able to make it work on my new system. I've tried many of the
>> suggestions from the archives (updating hdparm to do DMA for example)
>>
>> The problem is mythtv doesn't seem to produce an image. If I run
>> mythtv, I don't get any error messages and it tells me I'm watching
>> live tv, but there's no image onscreen. Same happens in mythfrontend
>> from the watch tv icon.
>>
>> Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> The most likely thing is sound -- either something's holding onto 
> /dev/dsp and
> preventing mythtv from opening it, or your card doesn't do 
> full-duplex.  In
> the first case, since you're running KDE, try killing off the artsd 
> sound
> daemon.  If it's the second, might want to try using ALSA.
>
> Isaac
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