[mythtv] Problem with RH8 and mythtv

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:32 pm, Felix Deschamps wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to mythtv. I downloaded all the sources (and all the pre-requisites
> etc...) and finally got everything compiled. I tested with xawtv and
> zapping, and they both work fine. The setup of mythtv worked (even though i
> got the "Interal Server Error" message a couple of times while downloading
> the listings) but once i tried running mythtv, it would just sit there. So
> i read over the list, and i see that other people have had a similar
> problem. here's the output that i get:
>
> root@proteus>mythtv
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> strange error flushing buffer...
>
>
> nothing happens after this point, and hit ctrl-c to exit.
>
> I saw Issac's post suggesting it may be a bug in ALSA rc5, so i got the
> rpms from freshrpm ( rc6.1 ) and got the drivers installed, but i still get
> the same error after that. Has anybody been able to get around this
> problem? Here is my sistem config:

The most likely thing is your soundcard doesn't do full-duplex properly, and 
it's hanging trying to open the sound device for output.

Isaac