[mythtv-users] Verifying that myth is using alsa

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Dec 5 12:17:53 EST 2003


On Friday 05 December 2003 06:52, Alan Snyder wrote:
> Sorry for what may be a dumb or OT question, but I
> can't find this in the archives.
>
> I have alsa running.  alsamixer or aumix control my
> input/output levels properly. But my frontend says
> things like
>
> 2003-12-05 00:38:09 Opening OSS audio device
> '/dev/dsp'.
>
> Is this normal with alsa running?

By default, Myth uses ALSA's OSS-compatibility API.  It's still using 
the ALSA driver, though.  If you want to enable Myth's built-in ALSA 
support, I believe you can... search the list archives for 'native 
ALSA'.

-JAC



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