[mythtvnz] No sound in frontend...

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>what about aplay -L  ?
>>
>>what is the audio device set to?
>
> That should work with MythTV set to ALSA: default.

not necessarily. Some laptops and other cards with recent alsa need ALSA:front

> Then you need to
> run alsamixer and check that everything you are using is enabled and
> has the volume level turned up.  And then check the volume setting in
> MythTV, both the default value in the setup somewhere, and the one
> controlled by the remote.  And check if the remote has the sound
> muted.  I once spent 10 minutes trying to figure out where my sound
> had gone when I had sat on the remote and muted it by mistake.
>
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