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

[gkanis at cems.umn.edu]

I am also running Gentoo/2.6/mythTv 0.13 but I have problems.

Vasilis


On Tuesday 30 December 2003 02:53 pm, Jeff Blair wrote:
> 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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