<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 2011-02-07, at 18:42, Andy <<a href="mailto:mizeraka@yahoo.com">mizeraka@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Well that is a great idea... in theory. I tried this a couple of different ways... I paused a YouTube clip, and I tried playing a 10 second silence clip on loop in audacious and in VLC.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">When I do that, I can "see" the desktop and/or the mythtv frontend. But when I try to play a clip, I get an error saying: "Potential ALSA version problem; [the program] failed to initialize your sound output device (if any). Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue"</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I am running mythtv v. 0.24, so I assume this
error message is occurring because the ALSA mixer is occupied with whatever was playing.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Also is it weird that the TV continues to recognize the signal even when a clip is paused?</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><br></span><div class="AppleOriginalContents" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div>On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>----- Original Message -----<br><blockquote type="cite">From: "Andy" <<a href="mailto:mizeraka@yahoo.com">mizeraka@yahoo.com</a>><br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for all the helpful advice. I have become convinced, however,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that my problem is a problem with the television as suggested by Greg<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and Jay. If anyone knows how to get the audio signal "always on"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">either through Xorg.conf or ALSA, I would appreciate a nudge in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">right direction.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This is why I am sure that it is not a problem with the resolution:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- Video comes on with any audio signal from any source (including when<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I play a YouTube through Firefox), which I surmise means that there is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">no change in the resolution of the video signal.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- I
changed my audio settings (through the very cool new "scan for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">audio" feature) to put audio out to a boombox. The audio came through<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fine, but the video signal did NOT switch on. Which again leads me to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">believe, as Greg and Jay suggested, that the TV will not display<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">without both audio and video streams over HDMI.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hopefully I can get some help with TV settings from LG, other wise the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">easy solution will be to return it for a model that DOES display HDMI<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">without an audio signal. I will be carrying my mythtv box with me and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">demanding to hook it up before I purchase another TV. Or again,
if<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">anyone knows how to get the audio signal "always on" either through<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Xorg.conf or ALSA, I would appreciate the help.<br></blockquote><br>Well, it's tacky as hell, but "when in doubt, use brute force":<br><br>You could always set audiacious to start at boot, and loop-play a 10 second clip of silence. :-) (Or, I guess, just aplay in a while true loop in a<br>shellscript.)<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div class="AppleOriginalContents" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div></blockquote><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You have never directly said whether you can boot to a login screen or to the desktop. This makes it difficult to diagnose.</span></font></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you turn off auto-login and autostart of mythfromtend, what happens?</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is also possible that your hdmi cable is not correct. Have you tried a different cable and the various inputs?</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is absolutely no reason why your box should not talk to an LG tv. I seriously doubt that LG *removed* that capability since mine was made. So it *is* operator error of some sort. And we don't know enough to figure it out. </span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What IS your output from the card? DVI, or hdmi? Do you have component or composite or Svideo outputs from the card?</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Need more info. </span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Geoff</span></font></span></font></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></body></html>