[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Problem.....

Akos Maroy darkeye at tyrell.hu
Mon Jul 21 10:52:21 EDT 2003


Joel Melohn wrote:
> I have been having the same problems with a blank screen when I would try to
> view live TV or to play a previously recorded program.
> 
> My problem was that the ALSA sound system was not installed properly. I had
> initially tried to run without installing ALSA sound drivers because I saw
> some comments that there might be some native support in MythTV 0.10 for
> ALSA.
> 
> I followed the description of how to install the ALSA in the documentation
> and the "blank screen" is gone.

wow. how could the ALSA sound driver cause the blank screen effect? is 
this indeed a solution? (I'm using standard kernel OSS drivers with my 
soundcard.)



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