[mythtv-users] Please help - sound issue

[Kevin Kuphal]

Squegee wrote:

>I'm really close to having my Myth box working after
>many long hours. (I'm fairly new to linux) I've
>searched high and low and can't seem to find any info
>on my problem. I have an Audigy 1 sound card and I
>can't for the life of me figure out how to get sound
>working with live or recorded tv.  I installed the
>alsa driver and I have sound within KDE, sound playing
>DVDs through the myth interface and I even get sound
>from a DVD I ripped using Myth.
>
>When I go into alsamixer or gnome-alsamixer if I
>unmute "Line" I hear the tv tuner feed, which is good.
> However, I have no option to set any channel to
>capture. There is a slider for Analog Mix and I've
>turned it up but I still don't hear sound with live
>tv. 
>
>My tuner is based on the Brooktree bt878 chip.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated,
>Thanks.
>J
>  
>
In alsamixer, you can press SPACE to toggle capture on a particular 
input.  Based on what you said, I think you should be able to do that on 
your Line input and see it print capture in red above it in the spot 
that now has just some dashes.

Kevin