[mythtv-users] *bump* remote frontend; ALSA not working
Christopher Singley
csingley at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 12:45:16 EST 2005
thank you kindly for your response.
> Most of my problems with sound have been because of file permissions.
i did indeed have such problems initially, but i added the mythtv user to
the audio group, and i did "chmod 777 /dev/sound/dsp". still, though, no
permutations of ALSA:xxx or /dev/xx/dsp are working. the mythtv user can
aplay using the default ALSA device, without issue.
> If you're attempting to use ALSA devices, make sure your myth is compiled
> with ALSA support.
i used the gentoo ebuild of mythtv-0.16, with both the alsa and oss
make-flags switched on.
> You don't mention an error message so there's part of me that wonders if
> you've
> double-checked that you have sound coming in on the recorded video.
an excellent question, but indeed i have done so. i fixed the msp3400.ko
situation on the backend and verified that the backend was fully
functional before i proceeded to work on the remote frontend. a video
that will play with sound on the backend plays without sound on the
frontend.
i am getting no errors inside mythtv on the on-screen display, but the
console output of mythfrontend is spitting out some errors. it says "Not
in the running state, state=2". Sometimes it also says,
"pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted".
> btw - I don't believe you set the frontend audio output using
> mythsetup. It's done
> through Setup -> General from mythfrontend, isn't it? Was that a typo
> above?
it was, pardon me.
thanks very much for any help. i am just about at wits' end with this
device. i must be overlooking something very basic, but i can't figure it
out.
would it perhaps help to recompile mythtv with ALSA support, but without
OSS?
cs
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