[mythtv-users] Permissions on devices?

[Cedar McKay]

Joe Schmidt wrote:

> I am using 0.9.3. The sound card is nForce, integrated on the 
> motherboard. The chipset is intel8x0. I've had different, but no more 
> favorable errors using the drivers from the nvidia website, and kernel 
> support for nforce. I ordered a nice half-size SB Live in hopes that 
> ALSA supports it better, but it'd still be swell if I could get the 
> intel8x0 working. Someone on the list reported success with it after 
> following the ALSA instructions exactly.
>


I have gotten sound working well with the nForce onboard sound under 
RH8, Mandrake 9.1, and Gentoo. In all cases I had to install ALSA. With 
RH8 this involved disabling the stock OSS drivers. With Mandrake I 
couldn't get the supplied version of ALSA to work, so had to install 
myself. With Gentoo, it was the easiest of all (who would have guessed?) 
I simply followed the very easy instructions for emerging ALSA on the 
gentoo website. To sum up, you don't need new hardware.


good luck,
Cedar