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Hi,<br>
<br>
This email is part question and part howto for ALSA on Fedora Core 2.
I would imagine that most PVR-350 owners buy two Y audio cables and do
the following:<br>
<br>
1) feed RCA (red and white) audio jacks from PVR-350 into the "line in"
port of their sound card using Y cable<br>
2) feed speaker out from sound card into TV using Y cable<br>
<br>
If this is done you can do HW decoding from the PVR-350 and be able to
play MP3's in mythmusic for example.<br>
<br>
ok ... so I did step 1 & 2 above and now I want to insure the "line
in" port is unmuted on a fresh boot. It appears this is the default on
a FC2 system to be muted after following Jarod's howto.<br>
<br>
so I tried using gnome-alsamixer and alsamixer to set the volume and
then rebooted (on separate trials). Note my system is auto logging in
as mythtv per Jarod's howto. But no luck after this step, the line in
was still muted after login as mythtv user.<br>
<br>
Then I found alsactl and figured I knew how to save the settings ...
seemed pretty logical ... so I:<br>
<br>
1) used gnome-alsamixer to unmute the "line in" and increase the volume<br>
2) did a "alsactl
store" to save the settings<br>
3) checked that /etc/asound.state
was actually getting updated and then rebooted (sound settings stored
here)<br>
<br>
still no luck ...<br>
<br>
then I figured that maybe I should be doing a /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script ... tried that and rebooted. <br>
<br>
still no luck ...<br>
<br>
then I wrote a simple script with one line (call it startup_script and
make executable)<br>
<br>
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore<br>
<br>
and put it in my .kde/Autostart folder<br>
<br>
now when I reboot the settings are restored from the /etc/asound.state
file!<br>
<br>
OK ... so this is a solution here (it did work for me) but I was just
curious as to what is mucking with the sound settings in between the
rc.local script and the .kde/Autostart/startup_script. Couldn't figure
this out.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
-Mike<br>
<br>
<br>
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