[mythtv-users] Blank screen

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Dec 16 04:37:59 EST 2003


On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:22 am, Tobias Bayer wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> When I try to run "Watch TV" in mythfrontend, the screen goes blank and  
> I hear a short distorted piece of sound. The only way to end  
> mythfrontend then is to kill it from another terminal.
> The console says "cannot open /dev/dsp". The device exists and I killed  
> artsd before running mythfrontend (leaving it alive does not change the  
> situation).
> Mythbackend starts without any problems.
> With xawtv I can watch TV without problems.
> 
> What may be wrong here?

Either something else is grabbing /dev/dsp, your sound card is not capable of 
full duplex operation, or permissions are wrong on the device.

Isaac


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