[mythtv] Mandrake 9 -- Help with ALSA
Jeremy Oddo
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:18:51 -0800 (PST)
> When the system is booting Mandrake shows if it is using Alsa.
>
> But you need 0.9 (It is somewhere in the docs) and Mandrake I don't
> think it comes with 0.9...Anyway I had to download and compile Alsa (I
> used the lates RC version) and then I had to recompile Mandrakes Kernel
> (It would hang up until I recompiled the kernel too).
>
Why did you have to recompile the kernel? I thought that the alsa was a
module that was called. What a pain.
> Afterwards it stared working very nice.
>
Yeah, so far, that's Myth's biggest downfall...the fact that the audio is
such a pain to get working...and it won't work until you get the audio
working.