[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 9.10 and ALSA mixing to HDMI on Revo AR1600

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bob Cunningham <FlyMyPG at gmail.com> wrote:
> A strange thing just happened:  I had lost my ALSA mixing and HDMI output
> (perhaps as part of an update?), so only one sound source could be heard at
> a time, and only though the analog outputs.  I finally became so frustrated
> while hacking on /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc, that I deleted
> ~/.asoundrc and saved /etc/asound.conf as an empty file.
>
> And fully mixed sound returned over the HDMI output.  Everything works fine
> now. (I'm listening to speaker-test singing backup for Jack Johnson.
>  Groovy.)
>
> What happened?  Was this another blessed visitation by the Peripatetic
> Perspicacious Penguin?
>
> Am I allowed to touch my system?  (I'm an Ubuntu/Debian newbie, having been
> a RedHat user for the past decade.)
>
> -BobC

If it ain't broke, don't play with it!