[mythtv-users] Remote frontend sound problems

[Ken VanDine]

I am trying to perfect my home media system... and get a little frustrated.  
Here is my setup:

-Gentoo Master backend
   -wintv 
-Redhat 9 frontend/slave backend
   -pvr-250 
-laptop redhat 9 frontend
   -no capture card

-NFS mounts for recordings and ring buffers are local.
-Using the latest alsa drivers

The master backend works like a champ, and the laptop worked great as a 
frontend until it's hard drive died.  The slave backend/frontend works fine 
when it is running as it's own master.  When it is acting as a slave and 
frontend there is no sound.  Also, if I don't run the backend at all on the 
redhat 9 box and just using it as a remote frontend to the master there is 
no sound.  It also behaves the same for both playing recordings or live-tv.  
Mythfrontend gets these errors when connecting to the master backend:

<snip>
open: No such file or directory
open: No such file or directory
open: No such file or directory
----repeats many times-----
open: No such file or directory
open: No such file or directory
player: Can't open audio device: 
</snip>

Again, it plays fine as a frontend for it's own backend... it just does this 
when connecting to the master backend.  I am pretty sure the laptop frontend 
was configured about the same and it worked fine.  I am at a loss :-)

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
--Ken