[mythtv-users] Sound not working
nate s
nate.strickland at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 07:19:36 UTC 2004
tip you can use fuser /dev/dsp to find out if anything is using it
rather than ps and grep
have you checked to make sure /dev/dsp exists?
also, you might try creating an empty file at
/var/lib/mythdvd/temp/mtd.log and see if that helps
-Nate
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:11:21 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON
<pwilliamson at mandtbank.com> wrote:
> I was fine with most of my MythTV functionality (schedule, record,
> watch TV, etc.) up until last night. My backend crashed and
> completely froze up the machine. I'll deal with that later, but I had
>
> to unplug the machine to get it to power down. When I brought it
> back up, ran fsck and no problems were found. However, now on
> boot, I get the following message:
>
> Start Service mdmonitor: MTDLogger.o: Problem opening logfile.
> Does this look openable to you: /var/lib/mythdvd/temp/mtd.log
>
> The file is not present in that directory, and all paths up to that
> location are at least 755.
>
> Oddly enough now I get no sound when trying to watch TV or
> any recordings. I get this nice little message saying "/dev/dsp is
> not available, do I want to continue without sound?" If I
> try aplay <known-good-mp3> from the command line, all I get
> is static.
>
> I've rebooted a few times with the exact same result. Is there
> some switch I can turn on for more debug info? I've done a
> ps -ef|grep 'dsp' and get no hits, so it doesn't look like
> anything is actually using /dev/dsp.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Paul
>
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