[mythtv-users] ALSA driver 0.9.8 does not work on SB Live cards

[IvanK.]

Actually, 0.9.8 works somewhat -- it's partially broken in that it doesn't see 
all the channels of my audigy (1 not 2) card.  Also CD controls don't work.

I'll try upgrading.

IvanK.


On Wednesday 26 November 2003 12:18 am, Chad Coulliette wrote:
> Axel & Jarod,
>
> I finally figured out the problem about why ALSA would not work on my
> computer.  First, I switched to Fedora Core 1, as Axel suggested.  I am
> quite happy with FC1 and glad I made the switch, but ALSA would still
> not work on the computer I had designated to be my full time myth box.
> I switched to my brother's computer, which has an Audigy2 card, and was
> able to install Fedora Core 1, MythTV and ALSA without any problems.
> ALSA worked exactly as desribed in Jarod's guide.  So, I spent the last
> two evenings reading everything I could find in the ALSA mailing list
> database on this subject and eventually found a post that said ALSA
> version 0.9.8 has a bug in it that makes it not recognize the existence
> of a SB Live card.  So, I checked which version apt-get installs from
> ATrpms using "rpm -q alsa-driver" and its
> "alsa-driver-0.9.8-13.rhfc1.at".  So, my case confirms the posting.
> According to the post on the ALSA mailing list, version 0.9.7c does work
> with SB Live, but I cannot find any RPMs with that version of driver.
>
> So, I tried downloading the latest CVS snapshot of ALSA, but it will not
> compile on my computer.  It compiles quite a ways, and when almost to
> the end it suddenly crashes and complains about a syntax type of error
> in one of the C header files.  It looks like they have released a
> 1.0.0pre3 snapshot of ALSA intended for wide distribution.  Axel, are
> you planning on updating the ATrpms to ALSA version 1.0?  Jarod... if
> Axel cannot do the update right away, you might want to put a note in
> your guide so that people with SB Live cards do not waste a lot of time
> (as I did) trying to figure out why they cannot get ALSA to work.
>
> Thanks (everyone) for your help and suggestions on this matter.
>
>
>
> Chad