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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:40:08
Message-Id: 1202524805.11241.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend by Michael Sullivan
1 On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge information:
4 > >
5 > > camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv
6 > >
7 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8 > >
9 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > > [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14972 USE="alsa dvb dvd ivtv
11 > > jack joystick lirc mmx opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -autostart
12 > > -backendonly -crciprec -dbox2 -debug -directv -dts -freebox
13 > > -frontendonly -hdhomerun -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 via
14 > > -nvidia" 0 kB
15 > >
16 > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
17 > >
18 > > I think it might have something to do with OSS, but I don't know what to
19 > > do about that because it's gone from my gnome volume control. Sound in
20 > > audacious and pidgin still works though. What should I do?
21 >
22 > I just ran mythfrontend in a terminal and looked at the output. I saw a
23 > lot of this line:
24 >
25 > /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
26 >
27 > If /dev/dsp doesn't exist, then how is everything else using sound?
28
29 If I put -oss in /etc/make.conf and emerge -ND world, would it
30 theoretically fix this problem?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>