[Right after I sent this to mythtv-users I realized it's probably better aimed at the alsa list... any help graciously embraced.]
Aargh. I finally had my myth box running correctly with 5.1 sound and sat my wife down to demo our new digital library of DVDs. Except audio was gone. I hadn't changed anything and it had been working fine for a couple days, so I figured it'd be a quick tweak. Eight hours of miserable effort later, I give up. It's gone, inside or outside of myth. What happened? I feel like I could have written a sound system from scratch more easily. The pain is greatest because I don't know why I was abandoned to this symphony of silence. A look at /proc/asound/pcm does not list the digital device that I think is supposed to be there, and light is no longer emitting from the optical output, though that state of affairs may be a result of one of the many things I've changed trying to get sound back. I am out of ideas and have turned desperate. The myth "WAF" plummeted last night when the movie evaporated, so the marriage of myth and marriage may depend on my recovering audio in the near future. All software is the latest debian unstable, kernel 2.6.5. I have read and tried pretty much everything ever written on the net regarding alsa, spdif, and intel8x0, no matter how improbable or ill-conceived. The IEC958 settings are all enabled, etc. I anticipate my next move involving a circular saw. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ lsmod |grep snd snd_intel8x0 32132 0 snd_ac97_codec 61828 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 93220 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 25604 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11268 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 7936 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 24096 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd 53220 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi soundcore 9952 1 snd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: Intel ICH : SiS SI7012 : playback 1 : capture 1 00-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : SiS SI7012 - MIC ADC : capture 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [0- 0]: ctl 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 33: : timer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.4rc2 emulation code) Kernel: Linux myth 2.6.5 #10 Sun Apr 11 23:17:35 PDT 2004 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: SiS SI7012 at 0x9400, irq 15 Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG -- Paul Phillips | True debauchery is liberating because it creates no Stickler | obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it Empiricist | remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of i'll ship a pulp | their own person. -- camus, the fall ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
