[mythtv-users] Re: Sound Issues

[Michael J. Roeder]

Derek,
I purchased this card from http://www.new-egg.com when I built the box 
last year. I couldn't remember if it was OEM or not-- I thought it may 
have been! I went out to Best Buy tonight and picked up a new SBLive! 
card. It had the same part number when I got it home, and after 
switching the card, letting Kudzu detect it, rerunning alsaconf, I have 
the same problem.

Basically, I set the card up in alsamixer, restart MythTV, go to live TV 
and I get the double audio. When I revisit alsamixer, the AUX channel is 
still showing MM and even if I toggle it on and off, the sound still 
persists.

So, I'm convinced that the SBLive! card I have is a retail version of it 
. So it is some problem with ALSA. But, xawtv does not cause this 
problem-- only MythTV.

Mike

> Hi Micheal,
> 
> Is your SBLive card an OEM version? (And did you have it with your old
> setup?) I ask because I had similar problems and after
> cross-referencing the model # on the card with a matrix on the Creative
> site I found the my SBLive card in my Dell was a piece of junk OEM
> version and that ALSA doesn't have drivers for. I've heard that certain
> Dell and Gateway computers (and maybe others) have this type of card. I
> finally just removed ALSA and move back to OSS.
> 
> Just a thought.
> Derek