[mythtv-users] Newbie - Can't watch TV

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 14 April 2003 12:24 pm, Tom Erskine wrote:
> Ok, I am very new to this, so I don't know exactly
> what to ask or what information you need.  I am trying
> to set this up on just one machine for now.  I have
> followed all the steps and have mythbackend working.
> When I go into mythfrontend, I go to TV, then the next
> menu comes up, and I press Spacebar on watch TV, and
> that is as far as I get.  The screen doesn't change,
> everything just locks up.  I am using a WinTV-Go
> capture card, a Matrox G450 video card, on a P4 1.8
> running Mandrake 9.0  I can watch tv using xawtv, but
> when testing like the doc says (mute the line in and
> use aplay  /dev/dsp, I just get a few popping sounds,
> nothing else.  I am guessing this is an sounds card
> problem, I am using alsa with the Intel 8x0 drivers.
> Any ideas to get this working?

What's it say on the console you ran mythbackend and mythfrontend from, is 
anything sitting on /dev/dsp (artsd, esd, etc), etc.

Isaac