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

[Duncan Kennington]

On 24 November 2010 08:47, Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> ----- 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.
>

In fairness they did mention it on the release notes
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.24#Special_Notices_.26_Instructionsand
http://mythbuntu.org/mythtv/0.24 in the Known issues section.  But good to
know for those of us looking to upgrade soon! :)
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