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I'm a real newbie (both the MythTV and Linux, but I'm doing my best to
learn) trying to setup MythTV using Jarod's Guide, and everything has
gone perfectly so far (except for my hardrive dying the last attempt at
installing, but I was able to return and exchange it : ), but am having
problems with section 9: Get and Install ALSA. I've done the following:<br>
<br>
1) Disabled aRts.<br>
<br>
2) [root@mythtv mythtv] # apt-get update <br>
(Seemd okay, did not get any errors)<br>
<br>
3) [root@mythtv mythtv] # apt-get install alsa-kmdl-$KERNEL<br>
Reading Package Lists... Done<br>
Building Dependency Tree... Done<br>
Package alsa-kmdl is not installed, so not removed<br>
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 14 not upgraded.<br>
(again seems okay?)<br>
<br>
4) [root@mythtv mythtv] # apt-get install alsa-driver alsa-utils<br>
Reading Package Lists... Done<br>
Building Dependency Tree... Done<br>
The following extra packages will be installed:<br>
alsa-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 kernel #2.4.20-20.9
strictdep-kernel-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9<br>
The following NEW packages will be installed:<br>
alsa-driver alsa-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 alsa-utils <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kernel@2.4.20-20.9">kernel@2.4.20-20.9</a><br>
strictep-kernel-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9<br>
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 removed and 14 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 15.4MB of archives.<br>
After unpacking 39.2MB of additional disk space will be used.<br>
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (hit y)<br>
... (gets a bunch of stuff)<br>
Fetched 15.4MB in 1m36s (160kB/s)<br>
Executing RPM (-ivh)...<br>
Preparing... ################################## [100%]<br>
1. Strictdep-kernel-kmdl-2###################### [ 25%]<br>
2. alsa-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 ###################### [ 50%]<br>
3. alsa-driver ###################### [ 75%]<br>
4. alsa-utils ###################### [100%]<br>
E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (1)<br>
<br>
(Error code? Okay, I did a search for this and found two articles
related to it. The first said this error code was something that could
be ignored. The second said that running apt-get might fix it so...)<br>
<br>
5) [root@mythtv mythtv] # apt-get install alsa-driver alsa-utils<br>
Reading Package Lists... Done<br>
Building Dependency Tree... Done<br>
alsa-driver is already the newest version.<br>
alsa-utils is already the newest version.<br>
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:<br>
The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br>
alsa-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9: Depends: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9<br>
strictdep-kernel-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9: Depends:
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9<br>
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution)<br>
(Okay, well maybe this is not a big deal, but I just don't know so I
move onto the next step in the guide...)<br>
<br>
6) [root@mythtv mythtv] # apt-get install gnome-alsamixer<br>
Reading Package Lists... Done<br>
Building Dependency Tree... Done<br>
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:<br>
The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br>
alsa-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9: Depends: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9<br>
strictdep-kernel-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9: Depends:
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9<br>
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution)<br>
(Whew! That was a lot of typing!!! I need to set-up an e-mail account
on the Linux system so I can just copy and paste...)<br>
<br>
Well, that sounds familar, and probably wrong? Seems that
gnome-alsamixer is not going to install. Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to get around this problem? I don't want to
continue following the guide because I'm worried that this may have
some negative impact later on in the install process?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
-Aleaxander<br>
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