[mythtvnz] No Sound & Black screen lockup in mythfrontend 0.24

[Steve V]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Graeme Woollett <graeme.joy at paradise.net.nz>
> To: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Tue, 23 November, 2010 10:36:54 PM
> Subject: [mythtvnz] No Sound & Black screen lockup in mythfrontend 0.24
> 
> I'm having these problems with 10.04 with JYA's repos build 27315.  
> Black screen lock is when exiting from a program.  System is otherwise 
> upto date with nvidia 195 drivers.  Are there any nvidia driver 
> combinations that are known to be bad with the new version of myth?
> No  audio, it says it can't access /dev/mixer even though it's there with 
> 666  permissions.
> 
> any  ideas?
> 
Yep fix the audio - then your black screen of death will go away.

I had the same problem.

Go into setup general then the audio pages, at the top there is an item scan for 
audio devices. do that. then choose your audio device in the next box.

Who would have thought.