[mythtv-users] Your soundcard is not reporting free space correctly.

[Ann Patterson]

I have had a myth box set up and working nicely for some time, using
myth 0.14, FC1, and Jarod's instructions. Today, I put a new sound card
into the box, a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 (ice1724 alsa driver). I have
alsa installed, and except for mythtv, the new sound card works fine.
Mythmusic, mplayer, and everything else I've tried is fine. But when I
try to either watch live tv, or play recordings that I recorded before I
put the new card in, I get no sound at all, and the following error
repeatedly from the frontend:

Your soundcard is not reporting free space correctly. 
Falling back to old method...

(and some of these, too)
Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!

The backend doesn't report any errors. 

I assume it's trying to use OSS emulation on /dev/dsp, because before
the error messages, I get this:

Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 

To verify that OSS emulation is working on /dev/dsp, I tried this:

play -d /dev/dsp KDE_Startup.wav 

Which worked fine.

I'm at a complete loss. I searched the archives, and came up with a
couple of things that I tried, but didn't work. Does anybody have any
ideas what to try next?