[mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only

Chris Wieringa cwieri39 at calvin.edu
Thu Jul 7 11:00:17 EDT 2005


>>> jcaputo1 at comcast.net 7/7/2005 10:25 AM >>>
>On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:05, Trevor Hill wrote:
>> This is somewhat off-topic, but it's preventing me from moving forward
>> with my Myth re-install and the 7NIF2 is such a popular motherboard
>> for Myth users that I figured I would ask here.

I don't have that motherboard, but I have an Abit N7F which is based on nForce2.

>> I think my biggest problem is that I'm not even sure where I need to
>> play with things to enable this (or set it as the default) *
>> .asoundrc, modprobe.conf, somewhere else...

This is from my gentoo system, but you might get some mileage out of it on FC if you can figure out where to put these items...

*-
ALSA module load options:

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
options snd cards_limit=1

*-
.asoundrc file for my mythtv user:

pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "nforce"
}

pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}

ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}

*

Good luck.

Chris Wieringa
cwieri39 at calvin.edu



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