[mythtv-users] Disabling Audio, reason is: snd_pcm_open(default): No such file or directory

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

2009/11/9 Matthew Jurgens <mythtv at edcint.co.nz>:
> I'm running MythTV 0.22 on a Dell GX520
> (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/spec_optix_gx520-gx620_en.pdf)
> It is running on Fedora 10.
> I have applied all the latest updates available for Fedora and Myth (from
> rpmfusion repos) as of 9th November
> At the linux level, using VLC I can quite happily play audio and video files
> Running MythTV however there is no audio
> The frontend logs report:
>
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> 2009-11-09 11:26:15.372 AudioOutput Error: snd_pcm_open(default): No such
> file or directory
> 2009-11-09 11:26:15.373 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, reason is:
> snd_pcm_open(default): No such file or directory

You've set your audio device as "default"
and you have not defined a default device in your .asoundrc configuration.