[mythtv] hardware problem...??

[Bruce Markey]

Nathan Ziarek wrote:
 > Cannot open DSP '/dev/audio', exiting
 > VIDIOCSAUDIO: Bad file descriptor

"Cannot open" usually means that the user doesn't have
permissions to read or write to the file...

> [root@localhost /]# ls -la /dev/audio
> crw-------    1 root     root      14,   4 Aug 30 18:31 /dev/audio

The first few characters say that only the owner "root"
can read and write. As root, try "chmod 666 /dev/audio".
then ls -l should show the permissions "crw-rw-rw-". Run
xawtv again as a regular user. If you still don't get sound,
use a mixer program to unmute and set the volume for "line"
assuming you plugged the external mini-jack into line-in.
Once you get sound from xawtv, use the mixer to leave the
volume where you like and mute "line" then try mythfrontend.

Hope this helps,

--  bjm