[mythtv-users] Native Alsa Support

[David George]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 rwk at americom.com wrote:

> I have just installed mythtv under gentoo (kernel 2.6 with build-in alsa
> support) compiled with Native Alsa Support.  When I try to play a
> program from mythfrontend I get:
> 
> 	   Error opening audio device (/dev/dsp).  No such device
> 
> I believe /dev/dsp is an OSS device and since I compiled with native
> alsa support, I would expect this.  My question is:

Yes, that is the OSS device.

> 
> What do I use in the General/Setup/Audio section?

ALSA:...  Where ... is the device.  In my case I use ALSA:spdif to use the 
optical SPDIF output on my motherboard.  The ALSA must be uppercase.

> 
> I am not presented with any choices for audio device except OSS
> devices.  I am using devfs and I do not see how to configure the
> frontend to use a devfs native alsa device.
> 
> Can anyone advise me on this?

Yes, search the archives.  This has been covered many times.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv&do=search_results&search_forum=all&search_string=native+alsa&search_type=AND

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David