[mythtv-users] Leadtek Winfast 2000 XP & Debian - segfaults

[Ray Olszewski]

At 04:15 PM 10/14/2003 +0000, Mark Shoemaker wrote:
>Thanks for the quick reply, Ray, your help is much appreciated.
>
>
>   I have an onboard 82cxxx sound chip.  I was using Arts in KDE for
>sound, and when I do a "killall arts" the sound errors go away,

Ah yes. This is a FAQ item, which I believe is covered in the HowTo. 
Perhaps it needs to be more prominent there? (Robert?)

>since
>the /dev/dsp becomes available. (no sound in other kde apps though,
>obviously)  However, mythtv still gives me a black screen when I start
>it, and I am unable to get out of it using alt-tab or alt-esc(my
>mythtv shutdown key).  I can't even switch to another terminal...
>(ctrl-alt-Fx)

Does sound now work *properly*; work the same old way (plays sound directly 
from the jumper, not from the buffer); or not work at all ... when the 
video screen is black during "live" TV, that is?

>   I will try to switch to the ALSA drivers, but I'm not so sure this
>will help.  I believe I originally was using the ALSA drivers and
>switched to try to fix the problem.
>
>Anyways, if you have any more advice, I'd be glad to hear it.
[old stuff deleted]

Does timed recording seem to record properly? Can you play back a recorded 
show successfully (with or without sound)?

I have a hazy recollection (hazy enough that if someone knows different, 
please correct me) that the 82cxxx OSS driver does not handle full-duplex 
properly, but that its ALSA counterpart does. So that *might* still be your 
problem.

I only skimmed your xvinfo stuff from before, but it looked OK. If you need 
to pursue that aspect, two things.

First, please be exact about which nvidia driver you are using. "the 
latest" is a bit vague. Do you really mean you downloaded and compiled it 
from the nVidia site this morning? Even if you did, I and others don't know 
offhand what version is "latest", so a version number would help more.

Second, do you know if you can access XVidio successfully with other apps? 
Try using xine to play an MPEG or DivX, for example, with the command (from 
an xterm) "xine -V xv filename" (replacing "filename" with the name of a 
playable video file).