[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

Cyber Source peter at cybersource.us
Wed Oct 26 15:25:22 EDT 2005


Michael T. Dean wrote:

> 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
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I did that first off, I remember that from long ago.

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