[mythtv-users] Sound problems, suggestions please.

Kevin N. Carpenter kevinc at seaplace.org
Tue Dec 30 23:26:20 EST 2003


Believe alsa is find.  mplayer works cleanly.

I'm a gentoo user, having emerged mythtv-0.13-r1.  When it starts, myth 
talks about "opening OSS audio device" - is there something else I need 
to do?

Kevin C.

Jelle Kalf wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:31:12 -0600
>"Kevin N. Carpenter" <kevinc at seaplace.org> wrote:
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>>All I hear is rapid clicking...
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>>Gentoo based system, mythtv 1.3-r1.  Nvidia FX 5200, SoundBlaster Live! PCI.  
>>Mplayer works.
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>-- do you think it's in mythtv or in the TVtuner card?? --
>
>if you think it's in myth try installing alsa first:
>make sure you have alsa installed and configured correctly. I see you have a emu10k1 soundcard so this should be done to get it installed swiftly: 
>
>1. make sure you haven't compiled any sound modules INTO the kernel, but you can have them selected as modules.
>-- after getting that fixed (and rebooted if you needed to rebuilt your kernel):
>2. env ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" emerge alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-utils
>3. edit your /etc/modules.d/alsa
>4. make sure to have: alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 
>   in there.
>5. rc-update add alsasound boot
>6. /etc/init.d/alsasound start
>7. rebuilt mythtv with alsa support
>
>Jelle.
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