[NTLUG:Discuss] MythTV sound issue

[. Daniel]

It has an all-Intel chipset and yes, the audio is onboard.  It has what 
seems to be a pretty advanced sound output system.  For inputs, it seems to 
have stereo line in and mono mic.

I am at the office right now or I'd just open the manual to tell you what 
make the board is...  oops!  Spoke too soon.  I have a PDF of the manual in 
my home dir.  it's a Gigabye GA-8I915PL-G.

Since the sound generally works for everything else, I'm sure it's all 
about configuring it right.  The capture board does seem to capture sound 
so I'm guessing there's something to that part I've missed.


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>. 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.
>
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