[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

[Michael T. Dean]

Cyber Source wrote:

> no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the 
> directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it 
> is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started 
> mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is 
> bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is 
> dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it 
> configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound 
> blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and 
> all other sound functions. Also, if I run "cat /dev/video0 > 
> /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have 
> some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and 
> initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have
> AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options 
> installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv.
> Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to 
> record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am 
> really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA
>
Change your recording profiles in Myth.  You should specify an 
appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz.

Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings.

Mike