[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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