Thanks. The problem is that if I disable 'Use Internal Volume Controls' I still can't control the mixer. If I use dev/dsp, changing the mixer levels has no effect. If I use ALSA, I get no sound at all.<br><br><b><i>"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 06/27/2006 03:36 PM, Chico Makani wrote:<br>> I'm running Myth 0.19 on Ubuntu Dapper. I have OSS and ALSA drivers <br>> installed.<br><br>I hope you mean you have ALSA drivers installed and have also loaded the <br>ALSA OSS emulation modules...<br><br>> mplayer works with either driver. I have an Nvidia4 chipset and <br>> RealTek audio chip.<br>><br>> If I run myth with the OSS driver device: /dev/dsp mixer: /dev/mixer<br>> I get audio but can't change the volume. If I open the mixer I can see <br>> that there's a PCM-2 conrol that
Myth is automatically setting to 100%.<br><br>Myth can only control Master or PCM controls on the mixer. If your card <br>uses a different name, Myth can't control volume for you.<br><br>> So I tried the ALSA driver. device: ALSA:default, mixer: default<br>> in this case I get no audio at all. From the log files it appears that <br>> Myth is looking for a Master control on the mixer that does not exist. <br>> Here's the message:<br>><br>> 2006-06-26 14:20:20.137 mixer unable to find control Master<br><br>In frontend settings, under General settings on page Audio:<br><br>Mixer Controls<br>Changing the volume adjusts the selected mixer.<br><br>If you need to control something besides PCM or Mixer, you'll have to <br>disable Myth's internal volume control:<br><br>Use internal volume controls<br>MythTV can control the PCM and master mixer volume. If you prefer to <br>use an external mixer program, then disable this option.<br><br>and use a script like
<br>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/192833#192833 .<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</blockquote><p> 
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