[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 8.04 Sound Blaster Live - No Sound

Douglas Wagner douglasw0 at gmail.com
Mon May 26 18:44:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell <
carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi> wrote:

> Douglas Wagner wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Mario Limonciello
>  > <mario.mailing at gmail.com <mailto:mario.mailing at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Douglas Wagner wrote:
> >      > All:
> >      >
> >      > Ok, i'm in a REAL bind here.  I have a week to get this figured
> out
> >      > before my WAF goes to the toilet.
> >      >
> >      > Long story short I just switched from a Fedora based MythTV setup
> >     to an
> >      > Ubuntu Setup (MythBuntu ROCKS).  I have NO experience with Unbuntu
> or
> >      > Debian.
> >      >
> >      > Installation went well, everything is up and running.  Initially
> >     I had
> >      > no sound at all.  WIthout doing much of anything (actually
> >     nothing other
> >      > than maybe a reboot I remember) I had actually, at one point,
> gotten
> >      > sound to work.  I came back the next morning and popped on the
> >     PVR and
> >      > all of a sudden i've got static...untuned radio like static
> >     comming from
> >      > my SB Live! board.
> >      >
> >      > To be honest I have NO idea where to go from here.  Sound was
> always
> >      > something that "just worked" on the fedora box.  I am totally
> >     lost even
> >      > where to look for what's going on.  The static "changes" when I
> >     move the
> >      > menu or even telnet into the box so there's "something", and when
> >     I plug
> >      > into the onboard sound it stops (I get no sound from onboard and
> >     haven't
> >      > even tried to set it up, but I really don't want to have to use
> >      > onboard)...the static also stops upon box reboot till mythbuntu is
> >      > partly up where it comes back again.
> >      >
> >      > As I said, I have NO idea where to even start with figuring out
> why I
> >      > have no sound or why i've got static.
> >      >
> >      > I'm plugged by RCA to the TV (Single pin in Green Out from Sound
> >     Card to
> >      > White/Red RCA on TV.)
> >      >
> >      > Any help on where to go or what to look at for why i'm getting
> static
> >      > out of my sound card would be VERY appreciated.  Any tutorials on
> >     how to
> >      > setup sound for an emu10k1 on mythbuntu would be appreciated as
> >     well as
> >      > I have no idea even what the basic methods of doing such are.
> >      >
> >      > Oh, one last thing.  If I go to alasmixer to that card (alsamixer
> >     -c 2)
> >      > and mute either the master or the PCM sound the static goes off,
> >     comes
> >      > back when you unmute so in essence this is sound comming through
> the
> >      > sound card.
> >      >
> >      > HELP please. :)
> >      >
> >      > --Douglas Wagner
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >
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> >     So here's thie important thing:
> >
> >     Are you using Mythbuntu added to Ubuntu, or straight Mythbuntu?  If
> >     you added to
> >     Ubuntu, you've got a pulseaudio daemon running.  You'll either have
> >     to kill it,
> >     or look at my other post a day or two ago about how to work nicely
> >     with it in place.
> >
> >     --
> >     Mario Limonciello
> >     mario.mailing at gmail.com <mailto:mario.mailing at gmail.com>
> >
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> >
> > Nope, no Ubuntu, installed Mythbuntu straight off of the CD, no Ubuntu
> > Pre-Installation.  I can look for a pulse audio server (ps aux | grep
> > pulse should do it right?) but I don't think one is running.  BTW I have
> > no preference on running with or without pulse so long as it works and
> > works consistantly.
> >
> > --Doug
> >
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> Is the card capable of outputting digital audio? Maybe a card that is
> able to toggle the output port between digital and analog audio? Perhaps
> it's sending in digital right now when it should output analog?
>
> I haven't fiddled with sound much either, since this is a feature that
> has usually "just worked" for me as well. But I did get static in my
> earphones some while ago when I had accidentally unmuted the "digital"
> channel (and hence effectively toggled the output to audio).
>
> Might want to look into it :)
>
>
> -Calle
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DARN!  And I thought that might be it.  Didn't work.  I went through alsa
mixer and tried to get everything muted/unmuted/on/off to see if that might
be it.  Didn't do anything.

--Doug
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