[mythtv-users] How do I get SBLive mixer to cooperate w / ALSA

[cmisip]

If you are using the SBLive 5.1, then if you couldn't get alsa working,
oss works fine.  Here is how I did it.

http://cmisip.home.insightbb.com/mythtv.htm


On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 19:15, Mark wrote:
> I've been running myth on Mandrake 9.1 for about 6 months. Had no
> problems other than LIRC never working.  This weekend, I decided to
> upgrade to MDK 9.2.  I saved my ALSA configuration in modules.conf
> to my home partition and installed away.  Afterwards, I copied my 
> modules.conf back to /etc and rebooted.  My sound cards appear to
> work, but no matter what I do, I can't get the loopthrough working right.
> 
> Symptoms:  I muted and set capture on Line input.
> Run XAWTV and aplay /dev/dsp in a console.
> This gives nothing.  IF, however, I set the CAPTURE
> slider in ALSAMIXER to capture, it then plays.  BUT, it's 
> not able to mute.  SO, I have two streams, one the live one, 
> and one the aplay stream.  If I have aplay going in the background
> and turn off capture on the capture slider, I get a couple seconds of
> sound, then silence.  Seems to me like there's another sound path
> somewhere, but I can't find it.  I set the Line slider to MUTE, but it doesn't 
> seem to do anything.  And, I looked in the archives for a couple hours, and
> didn't find anything relevant.  Anybody got any ideas?  The whole setup worked
> fine in 9.1, including the ALSA config I had going.  The only thing I didn't 
> save for reinstall was the Alsa mixer settings, because I figured how hard 
> could it be right?  Dummy me....
> 
> Mark
> 
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