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

[David Rees]

On 9/6/06, john bray <john at johnbray.name> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 00:18 -0700, David Rees wrote:
> > 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.
>
> i ran into a similar problem with permissions in fc4 some time ago.  i'd
> needed to have multiple users able to use certain devices.  but, i'd put
> up this and the problem was solved.  dunno if it fixes your problem, but
> might be worth a try to put up something similar...

Thanks for the suggestion. I figured out the cause of my sound going
away, the file /var/run/console/mythtv had gotten corrupted (7mo old
crawling around pushed the reset button on the system) so when mythtv
logged in the system couldn't assign permissions to mythtv.

For some reason I couldn't get the filesystem (jfs) it to clean up
with forced fsck's during bootup, but a boot into Knoppix and a fsck
without the filesystem mounted cleaned it up and all is well now.

-Dave