Mailing List Archive: More sound issues (RH9 & SB Live!)

More sound issues (RH9 & SB Live!)

Jul 23, 2003, 1:46 PM

Post #1 of 3 (987 views)

Ok, I have tried all other suggestions thus far. Here is where I am
at...

I tried both using the OSS drivers that come with RH9 for the Live! card
and I also used the MythTV instructions for installing and compiling the
ALSA drivers.

ALSA was another fun thing, with all of the ALSA settings in my
modules.conf, I can listen to mp3's, view videos, but if I try to set
anything in the mixer or try aplay, I get "aplay: main:484: audio open
error: No such device". Even stranger, it worked the last time I
booted, but not this time.

Even with all of this fun, I don't think that the sound issue is
actually with my sound card, I think it is with the WinTV card.

Here is a card like the one I have:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2743679154&category=3761

No, I am not selling it, it just looked like the one in my system.

I have the bttv driver loaded and I see video no problem. I am using
the S-Video connector as my input.

But, in MythTV AND in xawtv, I get no sound. I have a patch cable going
from the audio out on this card to the Line in on my SB Live!

I am SOOOOOO close with having my MythTV box up and really operational
that this final bit is driving my nuts!

ARe there additional drivers for the bttv card I need to load? I've
tried doing a "modprobe btaudio" to load that driver but it also got me
nowhere...

ANY suggestions or ideas will be greatly appreciated!

Brent Michalski

Re: More sound issues (RH9 & SB Live!) [ In reply to ]

cmisip at insightbb

Jul 23, 2003, 6:09 PM

Post #2 of 3 (960 views)

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are you using svideo to input video to the wintv card from the direct tv
box (not using the tuner on the wintv card at all?). Isn't svideo a
video only cable? are you running an audio cable from the directtv box
to the wintv tuner?

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:46, Brent Michalski wrote:
> Ok, I have tried all other suggestions thus far. Here is where I am
> at...
>
> I tried both using the OSS drivers that come with RH9 for the Live! card
> and I also used the MythTV instructions for installing and compiling the
> ALSA drivers.
>
> ALSA was another fun thing, with all of the ALSA settings in my
> modules.conf, I can listen to mp3's, view videos, but if I try to set
> anything in the mixer or try aplay, I get "aplay: main:484: audio open
> error: No such device". Even stranger, it worked the last time I
> booted, but not this time.
>
> Even with all of this fun, I don't think that the sound issue is
> actually with my sound card, I think it is with the WinTV card.
>
> Here is a card like the one I have:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2743679154&category=3761
>
> No, I am not selling it, it just looked like the one in my system.
>
> I have the bttv driver loaded and I see video no problem. I am using
> the S-Video connector as my input.
>
> But, in MythTV AND in xawtv, I get no sound. I have a patch cable going
> from the audio out on this card to the Line in on my SB Live!
>
> I am SOOOOOO close with having my MythTV box up and really operational
> that this final bit is driving my nuts!
>
> ARe there additional drivers for the bttv card I need to load? I've
> tried doing a "modprobe btaudio" to load that driver but it also got me
> nowhere...
>
> ANY suggestions or ideas will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Brent Michalski
>
>
>
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Re: More sound issues (RH9 & SB Live!) [ In reply to ]

brent at perlguy

Jul 23, 2003, 8:27 PM

Post #3 of 3 (963 views)

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Doh! That would explain it. I am not a total computer dweeb, but when
it comes to stereos and all of the hook-ups, I know very little..

I was just thinking that his was probably covered before in the list
archives, but then this message came in.

I still have system freeze when I try to do the instant recording, but I
am working through things a little at a time...

thanks for your help!

Brent

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 20:09, cmisip wrote:
> are you using svideo to input video to the wintv card from the direct tv
> box (not using the tuner on the wintv card at all?). Isn't svideo a
> video only cable? are you running an audio cable from the directtv box
> to the wintv tuner?
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:46, Brent Michalski wrote:
> > Ok, I have tried all other suggestions thus far. Here is where I am
> > at...
> >
> > I tried both using the OSS drivers that come with RH9 for the Live! card
> > and I also used the MythTV instructions for installing and compiling the
> > ALSA drivers.
> >
> > ALSA was another fun thing, with all of the ALSA settings in my
> > modules.conf, I can listen to mp3's, view videos, but if I try to set
> > anything in the mixer or try aplay, I get "aplay: main:484: audio open
> > error: No such device". Even stranger, it worked the last time I
> > booted, but not this time.
> >
> > Even with all of this fun, I don't think that the sound issue is
> > actually with my sound card, I think it is with the WinTV card.
> >
> > Here is a card like the one I have:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2743679154&category=3761
> >
> > No, I am not selling it, it just looked like the one in my system.
> >
> > I have the bttv driver loaded and I see video no problem. I am using
> > the S-Video connector as my input.
> >
> > But, in MythTV AND in xawtv, I get no sound. I have a patch cable going
> > from the audio out on this card to the Line in on my SB Live!
> >
> > I am SOOOOOO close with having my MythTV box up and really operational
> > that this final bit is driving my nuts!
> >
> > ARe there additional drivers for the bttv card I need to load? I've
> > tried doing a "modprobe btaudio" to load that driver but it also got me
> > nowhere...
> >
> > ANY suggestions or ideas will be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Brent Michalski
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
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