no sound with TVTime

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:34:12 -0500, Mikkel wrote:

> Martin Legault wrote:
> > Hello Mikkel,
> > 
> > sorry to join in late in the thread, I just installed F11 this morning
> > and TVTime as no sound, when I press the arrow key, the volume stay at
> > 0. I tried a few thing before looking on the web and none work.
> > 
> > my card is an older hauppage PVR-50 (if my memory is correct) NTSC only.
> > I tried modprobe snd-pcm-oss with no luck
> > 
> > here is the output of dmesg:
> > 
> > Bt87x 0000:05:00.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> > ALSA sound/pci/bt87x.c:931: bt87x0: Using board 1, analog, digital (rate
> > 32000 Hz)
> <---------------------------[SNIP]-------------------->
> 
> I have the same card - with the cable that runs between it and the
> sound card. It sounds like you do not have the mixer specified
> correctly. I have not updated that machine to F11 yet, so I can
> offer limited help. (Things to try and report back the results.) One
> way is to load the OSS emulation layer, and see if that fixes the
> problem. (modprobe snd-pcm-oss)

There's a tvtime update for F11 that adds support for ALSA mixers.
If its default mixer choice doesn't work for you, you may need to
specify a different mixer in the config file, or with options passed
to tvtime when starting it.