[mythtv-users] ALSA+2.6 kernel +MythTv not a good combination

[Jeff Blair]

I have been running Gentoo/2.6/MythTV for about 2 weeks now with no
problems.  About the only problem that I solved was that Alsa didn't
hold onto the sound settings.

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:42, Albert Santoni wrote:
> Paul Woodward wrote: 
> > Strange... I have Mandrake 9.2, I built the 2.6.0 release kernel and linked in the dvb-kernel tree. I'm running mythtv-0.13 and alsa-0.9-7 (I think) with no problems. Not managed to get raw spdif out, but that's a separate issue.
> > 
> > Paul
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> > > Hi,
> > > Last week I installed the 2.6 kernel with ALSA support and since then MythTV
> > > is behaving strangely. With 2.4 kernel and OSS support I did not have any
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > > The first problem was that when I was trying to watch TV, mythfronted would
> > > crash. I found out that this was because it did not have the right permission
> > > to right on /dev/dsp and after searching the forum I found that I need to
> > > use /dev/adsp. I did it, now it does not crash, but something else happens.
> > > I still do not have sound when I watch TV and also the people in the TV move
> > > in slow motion. MythFronted behaves like the system is under heavy load. But
> > > mine it is not. BTW I have P4 at 2.4Mhz. Finally, because mythfronted does
> > > not respond, the only way to stop it is to kill it.
> > > Do you have any idea about this problem?
> > > 
> > > Thank you in advance for you time,
> > > Vasilis
> > > 
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> I also didn't have to do anything special to make MythTV work on my
> 2.6.0 kernel rig... I'm also running Mandrake 9.2.
> I only tested mythfrontend (remote frontend), but it worked fine.
> 
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