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On Friday 06 June 2003 12:43 pm, Perry, Aaron wrote:
> Hi, I've been having problems with MythTV sound. I get errors about the
> device (/dev/dsp) being busy. It was sporadic for a while, but now I
> can't seem to get any live TV sound at all (and I'm finally integrating
> this system with my entertainment center, great timing!)
>
> I've scoured the forum and found reports of similar problems and causes
> but I cannot find the solution. It appears that this is likely because
> of the KDE sound server, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to turn
> it off.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

I'm a big fan of just deleting the artsd binary and completely turning it off.
=) I've had it take over my machine a couple times (endlessly spawning
copies of itself), and otherwise cause problems.

Isaac

On Friday 06 June 2003 04:43 pm, Perry, Aaron wrote:


> I've scoured the forum and found reports of similar problems and causes
> but I cannot find the solution. It appears that this is likely because
> of the KDE sound server, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to turn
> it off.



Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System
unclick whatever you like


> By the way, cheers to those of you who have been working on MythMusic.
> It's great!

You're welcome.

-thor

I have disabled artsd and made sure it wasn't running and I still get sounds out of KDE, presumably an OSS fallback? I had to turn off all sounds on events to get KDE to leave well enough alone :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Isaac Richards [mailto:ijr@po.cwru.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:51 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic works great, but MythTV = /dev/dsp
busy


On Friday 06 June 2003 12:43 pm, Perry, Aaron wrote:
> Hi, I've been having problems with MythTV sound. I get errors about the
> device (/dev/dsp) being busy. It was sporadic for a while, but now I
> can't seem to get any live TV sound at all (and I'm finally integrating
> this system with my entertainment center, great timing!)
>
> I've scoured the forum and found reports of similar problems and causes
> but I cannot find the solution. It appears that this is likely because
> of the KDE sound server, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to turn
> it off.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

I'm a big fan of just deleting the artsd binary and completely turning it off.
=) I've had it take over my machine a couple times (endlessly spawning
copies of itself), and otherwise cause problems.

Isaac
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Thanks Isaac and Thor. I tried turning off the Sound Server (as Thor
suggested). No luck. Still no sound in MythTV. (but the live TV
picture looks great on my 42" Widescreen!)

Isaac, where is the binary located? I don't care much for arts.

Thanks!
Aaron


---------Original Message-----
----From: Isaac Richards [mailto:ijr@po.cwru.edu]
----Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:51 PM
----To: Discussion about mythtv
----Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic works great, but MythTV =
/dev/dsp
----busy
----
----On Friday 06 June 2003 12:43 pm, Perry, Aaron wrote:
----> Hi, I've been having problems with MythTV sound. I get errors
about
----the
----> device (/dev/dsp) being busy. It was sporadic for a while, but
now I
----> can't seem to get any live TV sound at all (and I'm finally
----integrating
----> this system with my entertainment center, great timing!)
---->
----> I've scoured the forum and found reports of similar problems and
----causes
----> but I cannot find the solution. It appears that this is likely
----because
----> of the KDE sound server, but I'm having trouble figuring out how
to
----turn
----> it off.
---->
----> Any help would be appreciated.
----
----I'm a big fan of just deleting the artsd binary and completely
turning
----it off.
----=) I've had it take over my machine a couple times (endlessly
spawning
----copies of itself), and otherwise cause problems.
----
----Isaac
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----mythtv-users mailing list
----mythtv-users@snowman.net
----http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

No worries now. Got it working. Somehow the sound device changed to
/dev/sound/dsp (from /dev/dsp), or I'm going out of my mind. Weird.
The sad part is that it took me *this* long to figure it out.

This project has kept me up until about 2am over the past few
nights......

Thanks for all the help....

Aaron

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> No worries now. Got it working. Somehow the sound device changed
> to /dev/sound/dsp (from /dev/dsp), or I'm going out of my mind.
> Weird.

Weirder would be if one of those isn't a link to the other one.

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