[Cialug] alsa snd-atiixp with bt878

[David Champion]

Ah, yes. I was not using ALSA either. At that time, MythTV's 
documentation was saying not to use ALSA because of problems like 
this... I was using the OSS drivers.

It seems like ALSA is getting better, but it's still a bit flakey, IMHO.

-dc

Tom Pohl wrote:

> I'm all cool with the cabling, the problem is getting invalid pcm when 
> accessing the different dsp devices.  I think I may have gotten it 
> working late last night, but I was working from upstairs and it is 
> plugged into the tv downstairs and I was too lazy to go see.
> 
> I had to manually setup the 2 cards in modules.conf in the order that 
> seems to work:
> alias snd-card-0 snd-bt87x
> alias snd-card-1 snd-atiixp
> (and all the other junk that goes along with it)
> 
> I think the root of the problem is that alsaconf doesn't try to setup 
> more than 1 device.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Nov 2, 2004, at 10:35 AM, David Champion wrote:
> 
>> Tom Pohl wrote:
>>
>>> I have an ASUS Pundit-R that has an onboard AC97 sound card (alsa 
>>> module snd-atiixp) and a PCI BT878 based capture card.
>>> I seem to be able to get either the onboard sound card to work OR the 
>>> sound from the capture card, but not both.  If I use hotplug, i can 
>>> make the capture card audio work, and if I don't use hotplug, the 
>>> sound card works.
>>> Has anyone here ever been in such a situation and made it work?
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Tom
>>
>>
>> I believe on mine, I used a cable from the audio-out jack on the 
>> capture card to the audio-in jack on the sound card. If you're lucky, 
>> you might be able to do it with internal cables (just like a cdrom 
>> audio cable).
>>
>> -dc