Description of problem: No sound for my tv tuner Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Tried every reasonable setting I can think of in Advanced Volume Control for HDA Intel (Alsa mixer) and Playback: (& Capture:) Internal Audio (PulseAudio Mixer) 2. 3. Actual results: Great Picture No sound Expected results: TV sound Additional info: TV tuner and sound work fine in WindowsXP. Using Rogers Cable - still analog in Canada Tuner card is: Hauppauge WinTV HVR1800 PCIe - has both digital and analog capabilities Sound card is: product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27D8] vendor: Intel Corporation [8086] bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 01 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: Power Management, Message Signalled Interrupts, PCI Express, bus mastering, PCI capabilities listing configuration: driver: HDA Intel latency: 0 Application I am using is: tvtime Other sound works e.g. system beeps and baps, cd recordings. I played with this for hours in F10 using both tvtime and mplayer. I couldn't get sound with either application. New kernel for F11 compiled in all the needed video firmware and modules. Now in F11, only the sound does not work.
> Application I am using is: tvtime see bug 498167 [You're a bit vague as whether applications other than "tvtime and mplayer" give sound for you.]
I did say "Other sound works e.g. system beeps and baps, cd recordings" Specifically 'Rhythmbox Music Player' gives me full sound for my music CDs and FM radio. Bug 498167 has many of the same problems. Except the video driver is v4l2 and $ cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: ALC883 Analog : ALC883 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1 00-01: ALC883 Digital : ALC883 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1 00-02: ALC883 Analog : ALC883 Analog : capture 1 /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml contains <option name="MixerDevice" value="/dev/mixer:line"/> I apparently no longer have /dev/mixer. Where the mixer device has been moved to, I don't know.
You need the tvtime test update: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7103 Change the "MixerDevice" line in your tvtime.xml from "/dev/mixer:line" to "default/Line". In case that doesn't work, try "hw:0/Line" or try other mixer devices (notice the --mixer=... command-line argument). [Note that the test update contains a typo and needs another update, because currently it defaults to mixer "defaut/Line" instead of "default/Line".]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498167 ***
Change the "MixerDevice" line in your tvtime.xml from "/dev/mixer:line" to "default/Line". In case that doesn't work, try "hw:0/Line" or try other mixer devices (notice the --mixer=... command-line argument). Tried both; still no sound. Also tried from the command line: $ tvtime --mixer='default/line' Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/bill/.tvtime/tvtime.xml mixer: Can't open device default/line, mixer volume and mute unavailable. Thank you for using tvtime. Might mean SELinux is blocking. Will try again with SELinux in permissable mode. $ tvtime --mixer='hw:0/line' Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/bill/.tvtime/tvtime.xml mixer: Can't open device hw, mixer volume and mute unavailable. mixer: No such mixer channel '0/line', using channel 'line'. Thank you for using tvtime.
SELinux permissive mode doesn't change anything. I will wait for the tvtime-1.0.2-7.fc11 update.
The uppercase 'L' in "default/Line" and "hw:0/Line" is important. Both times you used lowercase 'l' instead.
> I will wait for the tvtime-1.0.2-7.fc11 update. yum --enablerepo=updates-testing tvtime You cannot try the new mixers with an older tvtime. The only thing that's still wrong with the test update is the typo in the default as pointed out before.
I have installed yum --enablerepo=updates-testing tvtime. It is present and working. I tried /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml <option name="MixerDevice" value="default/Line"/> and <option name="MixerDevice" value="hw:0/Line"/> and command line $ tvtime --mixer=default/Line Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/bill/.tvtime/tvtime.xml mixer: find error: Success mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable. mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable. $ tvtime --mixer=hw:0/Line Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/bill/.tvtime/tvtime.xml It seems that --mixer=hw:0/Line satisfies tvtime. HOWEVER, still no sound. By the Way: 1) Now that this bug 510105 has been declared a duplicate to 498167 which bug number should I communicate through. If 498167, how do I replicate my info there. 2) defensively, I had used 'L' rather than 'l', but I tried both just in case. I just made the mistake of copying the last attempts to this bug's comments. Won't happen again. 3) In lieu of a useful manual, my Advanced Volume Control lists 5 Devices at the top: HDA Intel (Alsa mixer); Playback: Internal Audio (PulseAudio Mixer); Capture: Monitor of Internal Audio (PulseAudio Mixer); Capture: Internal Audio (PulseAudio Mixer). All are set: Master = 90%, in addition Alsa mixer has PCM=100%, Front=100%, Line-in=100%, PC Speaker=90%. These settings should work, shouldn't they?
> which bug number should I communicate through Continue to assume that it is a problem with tvtime and not pulseaudio. I believe you're affected by bug 498167 Also show "rpm -q tvtime" to prove that you really have at least tvtime-1.0.2-7.fc11 installed because the newer tvtime-1.0.2-8.fc11 has yet to find its way onto the mirror servers.
$ rpm -q tvtime tvtime-1.0.2-7.fc11.x86_64 "Continue to assume that it is a problem with tvtime and not pulseaudio." Is it worth trying to get mplayer or xawtv going to see if they have the same problem?
Hi, the latest tvtime updates have added support for the ALSA mixer, nothing else. Therefore if you were not able to get any sound of it even when trying to use alsamixer it is likely that there is some other problem. As usually: try to verify first that you can get some sound out of the tv card at all -- plug headphones or speakers directly to the tv card's output and verify the sound works. If yes, then you need to set-up properly tvtime or play with the alsamixer more. You need to have the sound output of your tv card working and you need to have also the line pass through playback working. If you are having troubles with old tvtime and alsamixer and also with mplayer then it's unlikely the latest tvtime update would help you. Michael: Could you please close the bug as duplicate ONLY when you sure what is the real cause? If the description states "no sound in tvtime and mplayer" then I would at least expect some attempt to prove the conclusion that it's a tvtime bug.
The description is different, but that doesn't really matter. PulseAudio (which this issue originally was assigned to) is unrelated. OSS support is gone with F11. tvtime didn't support ALSA mixers so far and could not use [and turn on] an old OSS mixer device, if specified in the cfg file. There has been an exchange of private messages in addition to the ticket traffic. Apparently, even with "alsamixer -c0" reporter cannot turn on any input channel to make tv card audio output work. That means that internal routing from audio between tv card and sound hw doesn't work/isn't enabled. tvtime can't do anything about it if no mixer channel controls the tv audio output. It's more of another tv card driver problem (also see bug 497750 - same reporter, but F10). Tickets can be reopened and reassigned if enough has been found out -- or better, report findings upstream without all the noise.