[ATrpms-users] new alsa, no mythtv sound now

[Gary McClellan]

On 9/6/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:31:11AM -0400, Gary McClellan wrote:
> > On 9/6/06, David Rees <drees76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >On 9/4/06, john bray <john at johnbray.name> wrote:
> > >> i seem to have no problems with gaim, xmms, xine, mplayer making
> sounds.
> > >> but, mythtv remains silent.  i've mucked around with the setup
> settings
> > >> for mixer and mixer device.  no joy yet.
> > >>
> > >> i'm sort of looking for ideas.  anyone have any directions at which
> to
> > >> look?  anyone been through this already and know the answer?
> > >
> > >Have you checked the permissions of /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer? Mine seem
> > >to have changed to being only owned/read/writable by root recently,
> > >I'm still trying to figure out what changed.
> > >
> >
> > Looks like something in alsa changed ...
> >
> > Running mythfrontend and launching LiveTV yields:
> >
> > 2006-09-06 07:27:45.291 Opening audio device 'default'.
> > ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1632:(snd_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) Unknown
> field
> > ipc_sem
> > 2006-09-06 07:27:45.729 snd_pcm_open(default): Invalid argument
> > 2006-09-06 07:27:45.730 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is:
> > snd_pcm_open(default): Invalid argument
>
> Have you modified any alsa conf files? E.g. what does rpm -V alsa-lib
> say? If there are modified config file,s but you didn't modify them,
> reinstall alsa-lib to make sure that these config files are proper. If
> you had to modify anything, reinstall and do these mods again. Finally
> if this is not the issue, do alsa-lib and libasound2 properly match
> up in version/release?
>
> Also please try with aplay first before myth or mplayer.
>

As John first reported, sound works fine in all other applications - it's
just MythTV that has the problem.

-- 
Gary McClellan
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