[Bulk] Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Sun Sep 5 04:01:34 UTC 2010
Hi Bill
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:35 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi Terry;
> > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 13:01 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:53 -0400, William Case wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:46 -0400, William Case wrote:
> >> Just curious what do you do to get audio?
> >
> > I don't get audio. After futzing about for a long while, submitting
> > bugs, following the alsa mailing list, I gave up. Now I just use the
> > video in Linux to check what's on, to see what my favourite programs or
> > sports are doing etc. If I want to watch some TV, I switch to WindowsXP
> > or watch on the TV set in the livingroom.
> >
> I'm sure this is a redundant question, but have you enabled oss sound for alsa?
> If you do an 'lsmod' is 'snd-seq-oss' present? Do you have /dev/dsp present? I
> have problems with TV because my provider serves a mashup of unencrypted HD
> digital using over the air frequencies, encrypted content requiring a cable box,
> and unencrypted NTSC using either the broadcast or cable settings for those.
>
> /etc/modules.d/dis-oss.conf is the disabled file, copy to oss.conf and uncomment
> the module loading, and see if that make lots of stuff work. Note: it may
> confuse something as well, although I haven't had a problem yet.
Actually it is not a redundant question. It is a good reminder which I
will try in the morning. I tried it early on in process, when I first
stepped onto the TV yellow brick road. It didn't work, but then to be
fair at that time I didn't have a clue about what I was trying to do.
Now is a good time to give it another try.
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30.2
Evo.2.20.2, Emacs 23.2.1
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