Re: Sound and TV card problems
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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