[mythtv-users] No sound on Fedora 8

Duncan Brown mythtv at duncb.co.uk
Sat Nov 10 15:35:25 UTC 2007


Anthony Messina wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007 09:22:40 am Duncan Brown wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I've just upgraded to Fedora 8 on my test box and have no sound within
>> myth.
>>
>> The sound works fine on everything else, mplayer etc, just not in myth.
>>
>> I'm using the latest fixes from atrpms
>>
>> Mythfrontend log shows this:
>>
>> Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.
>> 2007-11-10 15:18:57.499 AudioOutput Error: Access type not available:
>> Invalid argument
>> 2007-11-10 15:18:57.499 AudioOutput Error: Unable to set ALSA parameters
>> 2007-11-10 15:18:57.502 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: Unable to set
>> ALSA parameters
>>
>>
>> Doing a search on these error messages led me to this page:
>>
>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/94
>>
>> Until a fix becomes available, how do I go about setting alsa to use
>> dmix by default as suggested in the ticket?
>>
>>     
>
> i'm not sure if axel has included that fix yet.  but you may be able to set 
> your device to use alsa harware directly like:
>
> ALSA:hw:0
>
> for the control and the mixer.
>   
Hi

Setting the sound output to /dev/dsp in general settings sorted it

Thanks for the point in the right direction

Dunc


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