[mythtv-users] fedora 11 audio with mythtv

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:28:11PM +0100, Gareth Glaccum wrote:
> For my system, I had to install the oss compatability, the modify the  
> modprobe file as follows (basically uncomment).
>
> [root at mythfe2 ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf
> # OSS Sound Support
> # This has been disabled in F11 onwards because it can interfere with the
> # PulseAudio sound service (a legacy OSS application can prevent PulseAudio
> # applications from playing sound by preventing PulseAudio from (re-)opening
> # the sound device). To re-enable support, uncomment the following line:
> #
> install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe 
> snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe 
> snd-seq-oss

I did this and switched back to /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer, and the sound is
fine now.

> What was strange, was one of my systems included the rpm from install, 
> one didn't

What rpm?

# rpm -q -f /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf
module-init-tools-3.7-9.fc11.i586

module-init-tools includes modprobe, so it's required on all systems.

-- Patrick Mansfield