[mythtv-users] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

[Simon Lundell]

Michael Haan wrote:

>I'm mid re-install even as I write this.  I was tring to avoid alsa
>n/c ultimately I want to use my board's spdif out and, frankly, under
>alsa this appeared to complex.  I guess we'll see.
>
>
>On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:43:48 -0500, Craig Partin <cpartin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:25:05 -0600, jl <jlambert at eml.cc> wrote:
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>>>I spent a very long time with the same problem - 3 sound cards, 2 sets
>>>of speakers - even headphones!
>>>
>>>If I remeber correctly (knew I was going to forget) I think "alsactl
>>>store" finally saved the mixer settings so I could get sound out of the
>>>speakers.  If that isn't it start looking for how to save alsa mixer
>>>settings.
>>>
>>>jl
>>>
>>>Michael Haan wrote:
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>>>>"Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound.  The
>>>>simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead
>>>>to get it to work with just the nvidia driver.  So, I emerge'd
>>>>alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa
>>>>(/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using
>>>>alsamixer - but nothing.  Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so
>>>>mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this
>>>>working.  Anyone?
>>>>
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>>If you don't have myth compiled with ALSA then you will need to have
>>OSS emulation.  Without the alsa use flag it it will not have native
>>ALSA support.  You will need the alsa module snd_intel8x0 (for nforce
>>boards) and snd_pcm_oss (for OSS emulation) to be loaded.
>>
>>Try alsaconf and see if that gets you anywhere.  Usually works for me.
>>
>>When I was setting up my gentoo myth box on nforce I read about lots
>>of people having trouble with the nvidia sound drivers, so I went with
>>ALSA.  It works beautifully on my system.  Check the gentoo wiki
>>how-to, one of them has options for an nforce board.
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I had the same problem last week. Re-emerging the alsa-related ebuilds 
fixed it, if I remember correctly.
//Simon