Re: Sound and TV card problems

From: Thomas Hood (jdthood_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/27/05

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    On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:00:14 +0100, Philip Striplin wrote:
    > On boot, and start up KDE (or Gnome, doesn't matter) I get a "dev/dsp
    > not found" error.

    If KDE/GNOME is looking for /dev/dsp then it is looking for an OSS device
    rather than an ALSA device. ALSA device files are in /dev/snd/.

    > If I run alsaconf, and restart KDE, it goes away and sound works fine.

    So you are actually using ALSA. Maybe you need to install libesd-alsa0
    and/or the equivalent for arts?

    > However, if I run alsaconf and then try to start tvtime I get a "no
    > signal" error.

    Is the driver for your TV card loaded? Are you executing tvtime with
    an option that tells it which device file in /dev/snd/ to use?

    > If I run the command in a console, I get "cannot open
    > capture device /dev/video0". If I don't run alsaconf, tvtime runs fine.
    >
    > Previously (thanks Andreas!) I learned that I could put entries into
    > /etc/modprobe.d/sound to sort out which of the two devices was default
    > and therefore not need to run alsaconf. This seems to have stopped
    > working now - ie I put the entries in, but (a) they are ineffective, and
    > (b) if I look in the "sound" file after reboot, they disappear.

    The really disappear after reboot? If so then that is a serious bug.

    It might be helpful to install the latest alsa-base and read its README
    file. 

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Thomas Hood
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