[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Oct 26 15:31:24 EDT 2005


Cyber Source wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>
>>> no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the 
>>> directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just 
>>> it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have 
>>> started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that 
>>> it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and 
>>> that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I 
>>> had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a 
>>> sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for 
>>> watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run "cat 
>>> /dev/video0 > /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, 
>>> etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but 
>>> this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with 
>>> the ivtv modules. I have
>>> AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options 
>>> installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv.
>>> Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to 
>>> record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am 
>>> really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA
>>>
>> Change your recording profiles in Myth.  You should specify an 
>> appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz.
>>
>> Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch 
>> recordings.
>
> I did that first off, I remember that from long ago.
>
Did you do that in all of your profiles?  It sounds like you did it for 
LiveTV, but not for the Default profile.

Mike


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