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**jbstew32** · 04-09-2003, 07:18 PM

I found a good mirror and said what the hell. I am now a Slacker again, but not without a problem or 2...

I cant seem to get my sound working. I just recompiled my kernel to include support for my TV Tuner card, so it shows up as having 2 sound devices, the TV Tuner's chip and my emu10k1 (sb live).

The problem is that i cant seem to get it work properly. I've never had a problem getting sound going until i enabled the "bt878 audio" support in the kernel for my TV Tuner card.

What would fix this?

**Stuart** · 04-09-2003, 09:01 PM

is it any audio that youre having trouble with, or just from your tv tuner audio?

**jbstew32** · 04-09-2003, 09:31 PM

all audio, im just trying to play wavs/mps/anything!

**jbstew32** · 04-09-2003, 09:44 PM

the only way to get sound is to disable video4linux, and that doenst exactly solve anything, heh.

**gorn** · 04-10-2003, 01:40 AM

CJ had a similar problem to this. i'll get him to post.

IIRC the problem was the first mixer/dsp device was not the on board sound, but the TV card. so you need to symlink /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp1 not /dev/dsp0 and /dev/mixer to /dev/mixer1 not mixer0

ln -sf /dev/dsp1 /dev/dsp is how you'll link

good luck

**cj171** · 04-10-2003, 01:43 AM

yes indeed, what I had to do was do what gorn said because for some reason slack makes the tuner card audio the wrong thing, so try changing to /dev/dsp1...however in my case, I have 2 audio cards or something was wierd, so i just tried /dev/dsp2 and bam! it worked! So, try playin around with that setting and report back if it works

-CJ

**jbstew32** · 04-10-2003, 03:56 AM

i ended up just compiling v4l in as a module and now the problem was the first mixer/dsp device was not the on board soun my sound, radio, and TV works.

Yeah that is a weird problem, it seems like there would be some initiative to fix it from automagically claiming the TV card as the primary audio device