Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:18:29 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Smillie wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:03:28 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. I think this is a known limit on FC3 currently. Jarod has a nice shell script documented here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yup, I have it there too. Still no-go. Just curious, and hope I haven't missed this in the thread; what user are you running alsamixer as? If it stores the settings in ~/something, alsactl probably won't find it since rc.local is run as root and will look in root:s home folder. / Niklas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:31:55 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to sound dense, but other than seeing if the sound settings are correct, how would I determine if it ran? I know the /etc/rc.local is at least being run as the other commands are working. no idea about the KDE startup script as the sound settings restore is the only command there. -Bill Easy peasy. It's just a shell script so add a set -x to the first line of the script. This should force bash to print diagnostics when it runs. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
--- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. And yes, I RTFM. Thanks, -Bill Just put it in /etc/rc.local so it gets run at bootup. -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:03:28 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. I think this is a known limit on FC3 currently. Jarod has a nice shell script documented here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
Colin Smillie wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:03:28 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. I think this is a known limit on FC3 currently. Jarod has a nice shell script documented here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yup, I have it there too. Still no-go. -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
--- Tu Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tu Holmes wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. And yes, I RTFM. Thanks, -Bill Just put it in /etc/rc.local so it gets run at bootup. -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It's there now, but it doesn't work. Hence the post... Odd, try running it out of /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh (which Jarod's guide has you create). -Tu You know, in reflection, I think I had an issue as well... Try to chmod 777 /etc/asound.state, and then give it a go. In running it out of the myth-load.sh, I think that's what I did... not really secure, but hey, it's a sound file ya' know? -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
Yan-Fa Li wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:18:29 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, I have it there too. Still no-go. -Bill Bill could you reproduce your /etc/rc.local on the mailing list ? One thing you need to do is make sure the command is full path. Relative paths are not guaranteed to work from system shell scripts. Also, if your alsa layer isn't initialized yet it won't work either. Try adding a modprobe snd-card-driver before the alsactl. FC3 is supposed to start up the sound driver though so I don't think this would be your problem. e.g. /usr/sbin/alsactl restore Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users My /etc/rc.local looks like: #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. touch /var/lock/subsys/local /sbin/modprobe lirc_gpio /sbin/modprobe lirc_serial /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 --output=/dev/lircd /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1 --output=/dev/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off /usr/bin/mtd --daemon # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-isa # I2C chip drivers modprobe it87 # sleep 2 # optional /usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended # restore sound settings /usr/sbin/alsactl restore Thanks, -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
Tu Holmes wrote: --- Tu Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tu Holmes wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. And yes, I RTFM. Thanks, -Bill Just put it in /etc/rc.local so it gets run at bootup. -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It's there now, but it doesn't work. Hence the post... Odd, try running it out of /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh (which Jarod's guide has you create). -Tu You know, in reflection, I think I had an issue as well... Try to chmod 777 /etc/asound.state, and then give it a go. In running it out of the myth-load.sh, I think that's what I did... not really secure, but hey, it's a sound file ya' know? -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have it in /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh. I will try the chmod 777 and see what it does. I'll have to test later as it's recording now. Thanks all for your help for a noob, the community is what makes OSS great. -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
Bill Smith wrote: Tu Holmes wrote: --- Tu Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tu Holmes wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. And yes, I RTFM. Thanks, -Bill Just put it in /etc/rc.local so it gets run at bootup. -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It's there now, but it doesn't work. Hence the post... Odd, try running it out of /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh (which Jarod's guide has you create). -Tu You know, in reflection, I think I had an issue as well... Try to chmod 777 /etc/asound.state, and then give it a go. In running it out of the myth-load.sh, I think that's what I did... not really secure, but hey, it's a sound file ya' know? -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have it in /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh. I will try the chmod 777 and see what it does. I'll have to test later as it's recording now. Thanks all for your help for a noob, the community is what makes OSS great. -Bill Changing the permissions didn't seem to help... Any other ideas? -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
At 09:49 PM 03/21/2005, you wrote: Bill Smith wrote: Tu Holmes wrote: --- Tu Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tu Holmes wrote: --- Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. And yes, I RTFM. Thanks, -Bill Just put it in /etc/rc.local so it gets run at bootup. -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It's there now, but it doesn't work. Hence the post... Odd, try running it out of /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh (which Jarod's guide has you create). -Tu You know, in reflection, I think I had an issue as well... Try to chmod 777 /etc/asound.state, and then give it a go. In running it out of the myth-load.sh, I think that's what I did... not really secure, but hey, it's a sound file ya' know? -Tu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have it in /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh. I will try the chmod 777 and see what it does. I'll have to test later as it's recording now. Thanks all for your help for a noob, the community is what makes OSS great. -Bill Changing the permissions didn't seem to help... Any other ideas? -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I never could get alsactl to restore my settings but this might help if you are using KDE. Launch Kmix and set everything up as you like. Then minimize it. Then log out of KDE, which will cause KDE to remember your settings, and log back in. Worked for me. J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 13:18, Bill Smith wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. I think this is a known limit on FC3 currently. Jarod has a nice shell script documented here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto Yup, I have it there too. Still no-go. Works great for me on several boxes. Are you sure its actually being run on your system? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Not to sound dense, but other than seeing if the sound settings are correct, how would I determine if it ran? I know the /etc/rc.local is at least being run as the other commands are working. no idea about the KDE startup script as the sound settings restore is the only command there. -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
Changing the permissions didn't seem to help... Any other ideas? -Bill If you're running KDE, you can just run kmix, have it stay on the taskbar and tell it to save parameters on exit, it does pretty much the same thing, and I've used it in the past. -Tu __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide
On Monday 21 March 2005 19:31, Bill Smith wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 13:18, Bill Smith wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other suggestions from more Linux savvy friends, but the only method that seems to work is to manually run /usr/sbin/alsactl restore after a reboot. Am I missing something? I'm running Myth 0.17 on FC 3 w/ 2.6.10-1.770 kernel. I think this is a known limit on FC3 currently. Jarod has a nice shell script documented here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto Yup, I have it there too. Still no-go. Works great for me on several boxes. Are you sure its actually being run on your system? Not to sound dense, but other than seeing if the sound settings are correct, how would I determine if it ran? I know the /etc/rc.local is at least being run as the other commands are working. no idea about the KDE startup script as the sound settings restore is the only command there. Is anything else called from the script launched? Does it have any effect if you run the script by hand? Are you positive the script is set to be executable? -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgpB9ISKiGDPf.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
