[mythtv-users] Ubuntu alsa sound & apt-get update concerns
Robert Johnston
anaerin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 05:25:33 UTC 2006
On 1/12/06, Mike <hometeamnats-a at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hopefully the last time I'll need the excellent help this list provides to
> get this box up and running... I'm a long time Red Hat user, but switched
> to Ubuntu for my second myth box (which has been a great move so far, for
> simplicity and thanks to Daniel Hyams' excellent page.) I have two remaining
> issues yet to be worked out:
>
> 1. Volume control - This new install won't be hooked up to a stereo, so I
> need to get volume control working. Sound is running through ALSA right now,
> as by default, but there seems to be no effect of changing volume through
> mythfrontend (remote or keyboard.) How do I go about fixing this?
Try setting the mixer control to "default", which should pick up the
right soundcard.
If that doesn't work, check that changing sound in alsa actually works.
> 2. OS updates - On my FC4 system, I've hosed ivtv, lirc, and a number of
> other kernel-dependent packages when I do the yum updates from time to time.
> I assume Ubuntu apt-get update will have the same effect a times. Because
> this is just a myth box on an isolated network, I'd rather just disable the
> update announcement and do updates manually when there are significant myth
> or related releases. Any myth-related reason _not_ to do that?
No. If you leave everything, without updating, then your myth box will
continue to operate as it always has. However, if, somehow, someone
were to get into the box from outside, it will still be filled with
all the security flaws that are discovered from now on.
But then, already being a RedHat admin for a while, you already know
that. so, "No". :)
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Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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