[mythtv-users] No sound from MythTV on my laptop

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Aug 12 03:34:47 UTC 2009


On 08/09/2009 10:21 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 08/09/2009 10:02 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:33 PM, "Kevin J. Cummings"
>> <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> I've installed F11.x86_64 on my laptop (upgraded from F9.x86_64,
>>> upgraded from FC6.i386) recently (June).  I also update MythTV to
>>> 0.21-211 (from ATRPMs).  The only problem I'm having is no sound from
>>> either liveTV or recordings when they are played on my laptop.  Both
>>> work just fine from when played on the backend server (an F10 AMD 2600+
>>> with 0.21-211.fc10 also from ATRPMs).
>>>
>>> When I noticed that the laptop was configured to play sound on /dev/dsp,
>>> and that the laptop not longer *has* a /dev/dsp,
>> See (iirc) /etc/modprobe.d/oss.conf
>
> Ah, .... /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf
> a way to re-enable OSS support (which may cause pulseaudio to block).
>
>>> I changed it to
>>> ALSA:default, but it doesn't seem to matter.  No matter what I select
>>> from the pulldown menu, I get no sound from MythTV.
>> I've seen the same on occasion. Often times, blowing away
>> /etc/alsa/asound.state and rebooting helps. ALSA is, um,
>> less-than-api-stable across kernel versions, so a big update jump can
>> really hork things up...
>
> I don't have an asound.state in /etc/alsa.  Just alsactl.conf and
> pulse-default.conf.
>
> BUT, I *do* have an /etc/asound.state file....

Sorry, was going from memory, that'd be the file to nuke. However, it 
sounds like you're all set after re-enabling the alsa oss-compat modules.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com



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