[mythtv-users] Sound problem with 0.27 on Ubuntu 14.04

[Mike Perkins]

On 24/04/14 11:28, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/24/2014 01:05 AM, Mike Carron wrote:
>> I have sound through my USB speakers using all the programs I've tried except
>> a Myth frontend. When I try to set the sound card in the Setup Wizard, the
>> wizard tries to examine the sound system and then crashes. The mythfrontend
>> was installed as a package from the Ubuntu Software Center, it was not
>> something I compiled. This appears to be the relevant log info:
> ...
>>    Apr 23 19:39:01 Office mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[10904]: E
>>    CoreContext audio/audiooutput.cpp:200 (OpenAudio) Don't disable OSS
>>    support unless you're not running on Linux.
> ...
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Build MythTV properly--which means don't use random
> --disable-what-I-feel-I-do-not-need arguments.  Building without OSS support on
> GNU/Linux creates a broken MythTV (which is almost definitely why it's crashing).
>
> Generally, your configure line should be:
>
> ./configure --enable-proc-opt
>
> with possibly a couple of --enable-something items if you want.
>
Huh? From the OP:

"The mythfrontend was installed as a package from the Ubuntu Software Center, it 
was not something I compiled."

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Mike Perkins