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From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:43:29
Message-Id: 200802090943.12118.mcbrides9@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend by Michael Sullivan
1 On Friday 08 February 2008 09:40:04 pm Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
4 > > > I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge
5 > > > information:
6 > > >
7 > > > camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv
8 > > >
9 > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
10 > > >
11 > > > Calculating dependencies... done!
12 > > > [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14972 USE="alsa dvb dvd ivtv
13 > > > jack joystick lirc mmx opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -autostart
14 > > > -backendonly -crciprec -dbox2 -debug -directv -dts -freebox
15 > > > -frontendonly -hdhomerun -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 via
16 > > > -nvidia" 0 kB
17 > > >
18 > > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
19 > > >
20 > > > I think it might have something to do with OSS, but I don't know what
21 > > > to do about that because it's gone from my gnome volume control. Sound
22 > > > in audacious and pidgin still works though. What should I do?
23 > >
24 > > I just ran mythfrontend in a terminal and looked at the output. I saw a
25 > > lot of this line:
26 > >
27 > > /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
28 > >
29 > > If /dev/dsp doesn't exist, then how is everything else using sound?
30 >
31 > If I put -oss in /etc/make.conf and emerge -ND world, would it
32 > theoretically fix this problem?
33
34 How are you implementing ALSA? Are you using the kernel modules or the alsa
35 ebuilds? If kernel, then make sure it the oss emulation is enabled.
36
37 Check your alsa file at /etc/modules.d/alsa, it should look like:
38
39 alias char-major-116 snd
40 alias char-major-14 soundcore
41
42 alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp # the alsa drive I need for my sound hardware
43 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
44 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
45 alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
46 alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
47 alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
48 alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
49
50 alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
51 alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
52 alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
53 options snd cards_limit=1
54 alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
55
56
57 --
58
59
60 From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride
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