[mythtv-users] Problem getting Myth fully functional on Gentoo

[Phill Wiggin]

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I had a similar problem with mythfrontend on my laptop.  Your problem
could indeed be the lack of a sound card.  Try running mythfrontend
from Eterm (xterm, whatever) and check the output.  My problem was
that Myth was unable to open /dev/dsp (the soundcard) since it was
already in use by another program.  Yours could be that it can't open
/dev/dsp because it doesn't exist.


- --Phill W.


blah99 at comcast.net wrote:

| Hello,
|
| I've been working on setting up a MythTV setup on my Gentoo system.
| I just have one problem and was wondering if anyone had any ideas.
|
| Basically, the backend system seems to work fine.  It schedules and
| records show and they record fine.  I can play the resulting files
| back with something like mplayer.
|
| The frontend works fine with the sole exception of video playback.
| If you try to watch live TV, the screen goes and stays black.  The
| system has not crashed.  If you switch to another window you can
| kill the session.  Same kind of deal with watching pre-recorded
| shows via the frontend.  The interesting thing is that the little
| thumbnail preview works as well as playing the .nuv files with
| mplayer.
|
| I should point out I don't have a sound card in the system.
| Originally it was just going to be a backend, but at the time I
| didn't realize that MythWeb doesn't stream video.  I'll add a sound
| card, but I doesn't seem like that should be the issue.
|
| It seems like some sort of video config issue, but I don't recall
| seeing anything listed about special setup.
|
| Thoughts?
|
| Thanks!
|
| -john
|
|
| System specifics:
|
| Home built system with: AMD Duron 900MHz ASUS A7V600 512MB RAM 4
| port Promise SATA controller + drives nVidia Corporation NV17
| [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev 163) *no* sound card! (2) National
| Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 NICs 3Com Corporation Gigabit
| Ethernet Adapter (built in) Adaptec AHA-2940U PVR250 Root disk
| driven from onboard IDE controller
|
| Gentoo Linux (current as of a couple of days ago) 2.4.24 kernel
| NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336 Promise driver 1.00.0.8 MythTV 0.13-r1
| (current Gentoo release) ivtv-0.1.9
|
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