[mythtv-users] 11/20 CVS and ALSA

[Rob Rosenfeld]

David George wrote:

> On 11/21/2004 02:06 AM, Rob Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>> I have been running 0.16 with ALSA with no audio problems for a month 
>> or so.  However, I was affected by the bug where the frontend would 
>> freeze as long as it was in a recording, so I decided to upgrade to 
>> CVS.  I built CVS with both OSS and ALSA support.  My kernel (2.6.9) 
>> has ALSA w/ OSS emulation configured.  It works fine (and fixes my 
>> freezes!) as long as I configure audio to use OSS devices in 
>> mythfrontend.  I have also confirmed that ALSA still works (there 
>> have been no changes) by running:
>
>
> The version of Alsa that comes with 2.6.9 (1.0.6) is broken.  At least 
> it has problems with emu10k1 (Soundblaster) and ICH4 (Intel).  
> Currently the best option is to download 1.0.5a from 
> http://alsa-project.org and use that.  I am currently testing with 
> 1.0.7, but it still isn't quite as reliable as 1.0.5a for me.
>
I have ice1712 (envy24).  I get the same results with 1.0.5a and 1.0.7 
.  Here's how I tested.

1.    rebuild kernel w/o ALSA
2.    build new alsa version
3.    rebuild mythtv
4.    reboot
5.    test

I feel like I might be missing something simple, like could the Mixer 
Device name be something besides "default"?