[NTLUG:Discuss] MythTV sound issue

[Chris Cox]

. Daniel wrote:
> I remember on one of my rare visits to a meeting, I saw a great toy that 
> one of the users brought in.  It was a MythTV box (upon which I based my 
> own box) that was packed full of goodies including that "Linux Only" TV 
> capture card.  He had based his installation on Knoppmyth.  Following in 
> his footsteps, I had attempted the same thing, but my system board was very 
> different in that the hard drives are on SATA and the DVD writer is on some 
> IDE that is actually some RAID controller.  It's a weird motherboard I 
> know...   Anyway, my experiences with Knoppmyth were all but 
> non-functional.  So I attempted again using Fedora Core 5.  I'm getting a 
> lot more success though I have some issues with sound.  And I recall that 
> the person with his MythTV box was also encountering problems with sound.  
> 
> So I ask you, anonymous stranger, did you ever overcome your sound problem? 
>  And if so, how?  I think my symptoms are the same as yours.  From the lite 
> reading I have done so far, I am guessing that MythTV relies on ALSA and I 
> don't have that turned on... not yet anyway.
> 
> And if anyone else has any suggestions..?  I'm listening! :)

Well.. you really need to explicitly state your motherboard model/version.
I'm guessing you have onboard audio??

I've seen some contemporary boards with an i810 style sound... which
works best with the OSS driver, though I did manage to get mine to
work alsa through uninstalling and reinstalling lots of different
things.  Hard to describe.  Probably shouldn't of even said that
until we know what kind of mb/sound you have.