No Sound using xawtv and/or tvtime

[Vincent Trouilliez]

You didn't say what version of Ubuntu you installed ?
With 4.10, XawTV worked 100% perfectly out of the box, sweet as
chocolate, just click'n run, as it' supposed to be.

But with Hoary 5.04, the TV card has vecome troublesome, TV won't work
properly no matter what app I tried. Looks like a bug pretty low down in
the system, either kernel or TV card module/driver, but I am not geek so
can't fix it, and since Hoary is due for release next week hence zero
hope to see it fixed, I have no choice but stick to Warty.

So, to the point, if you installed Hoary... try Warty instead, or at
least the Warty live CD, in case you have already spent lots of time
setting-up Hoary and don't want to wipe it.
But I think that the Warty Live CD doesn't use the same hardware
detection mechanism than the normal install CD, so best to install Warty
for good, even if it's just a 5GB partition in a corner[1] of your hard
drive, next to Hoary.

HTH

--
Vince

[1] Does that make any sense at all, corners in a disc ?!...


> Hi there! I'm totaly new to ubuntu, just istalled it because a friend 
> told me this distro really rocks and I'm searching for the ideal OS to 
> work with both, my G3 powerbook and my HP Pavillion Home PC.
> So I really like what I got installed on the Pavillion, it's by far the 
> best distro I saw up to the moment, lot's of things work out of the 
> box...wow
> 
> But I gut a problem with the tv card. I tried to insall tvtime, I get 
> video (that's much more with this app than I got with sarge) but I get 
> no sound. Xawtv the same thing (So this app worked under Sarge, but the 
> video output from ubuntu is better) no sound.
> I tried to disable esound, no change, didn't work. tvtime says it can't 
> open /dev/mixer. xawtv doesn't complain at all, they just do no sound.
> 
> I found on google an article from a lucky person who had xawtv with 
> sound support running out of the box, but he had the problem that his 
> other sounds didn't work anymore, because the tvcard also loads as 
> soundcard and the tvcard got loaded first in /etc/modules. So he flipped 
> the to drivers and now both is working.
> 
> I had I look in /etc/modules, but it doesn't seem to load a tvcard sound 
> at all, there are just a view entries. Has someone got suggestions what 
> I can do to get these Apps running?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Rainer