Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 21:27 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2008 08:45:50 pm Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore.  Here's the emerge information:
> > >
> > > camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv
> > >
> > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > >
> > > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > > [ebuild   R   ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14972  USE="alsa dvb dvd ivtv
> > > jack joystick lirc mmx opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -autostart
> > > -backendonly -crciprec -dbox2 -debug -directv -dts -freebox
> > > -frontendonly -hdhomerun -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 via
> > > -nvidia" 0 kB
> > >
> > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> > >
> > > I think it might have something to do with OSS, but I don't know what to
> > > do about that because it's gone from my gnome volume control.  Sound in
> > > audacious and pidgin still works though.  What should I do?
> >
> > I just ran mythfrontend in a terminal and looked at the output.  I saw a
> > lot of this line:
> >
> > /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
> >
> > If /dev/dsp doesn't exist, then how is everything else using sound?
>
> You have /dev/adsp and that's what they use. For mythtv, I found I had to
> provide the oss modules also...
>
> --
>
>
> From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride

michael@camille ~ $ ls /dev/adsp
ls: cannot access /dev/adsp: No such file or directory

How do I get the OSS modules?  Do I have to compile them into the
kernel?  I have the oss use flag set.  BTW I'm using 

michael@camille ~ $ uname -a
Linux camille 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Sun Jan 27 09:34:08 CST 2008 i686
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


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