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

[J. Donavan Stanley]

blah99 at comcast.net wrote:

>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.
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Myth logs a bunch of things to the console from which it was started.  
In this case your screen should have been filled with a continuous 
stream of errors about not being able to open /dev/dsp which probably 
would have tipped you off to the real problem.