[mythtv-users] Newbie - Can't watch TV
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Apr 14 16:32:30 UTC 2003
On Monday 14 April 2003 12:24 pm, Tom Erskine wrote:
> Ok, I am very new to this, so I don't know exactly
> what to ask or what information you need. I am trying
> to set this up on just one machine for now. I have
> followed all the steps and have mythbackend working.
> When I go into mythfrontend, I go to TV, then the next
> menu comes up, and I press Spacebar on watch TV, and
> that is as far as I get. The screen doesn't change,
> everything just locks up. I am using a WinTV-Go
> capture card, a Matrox G450 video card, on a P4 1.8
> running Mandrake 9.0 I can watch tv using xawtv, but
> when testing like the doc says (mute the line in and
> use aplay /dev/dsp, I just get a few popping sounds,
> nothing else. I am guessing this is an sounds card
> problem, I am using alsa with the Intel 8x0 drivers.
> Any ideas to get this working?
What's it say on the console you ran mythbackend and mythfrontend from, is
anything sitting on /dev/dsp (artsd, esd, etc), etc.
Isaac
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