[mythtv] hardware problem...??

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 29 November 2002 11:31 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> 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.

Other thing is, you shouldn't be using /dev/audio.  /dev/dsp is what's needed.

Isaac