tv card kills my sound

[phobik]

hi

when i plug my wintv card in my audigy sound wont work.
i think for some reason the system is trying to use the tv card for sound maybe.
im using kde and i get an error saying that the sound system was shut down.
anybody have an idea how to sort this out please

cheers

[knute]

Setup the sound on your wintv card to use arts, rather than whatever it is set up to by default.

[phobik]

Originally posted by knute
Setup the sound on your wintv card to use arts, rather than whatever it is set up to by default.

how do i go about doing this please ?

cheers

[knute]

First off, I need to say that I got busy right as I hit reply to reply to your message, so I didn't actually think things thru.

How is the wintv card set up physically in the system?

Do you have the WinTV Card and the sound card connected either with the line out on the tv card to the line in on the sound card, or with the internal connections or with speakers connected directly to the tv card?

Also do you have the appropriate modules loaded?

[quote]from http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialVideo.html#WINTV :
installed a Hauppauge model 447 WinTV PCI card and Kudzu detected it upon system boot and made the appropriate system configuration changes. No further system configuration changes were required. Kudzu added the following line to the file /etc/modules.conf:

alias char-major-81 bttv

The following devices are supported by the WinTV card:

* /dev/radio - FM radio
* /dev/vbi - TV call sign data
* /dev/video0 - TV

How to generate devices if they did not get generated properly:

[root prompt]# mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
[root prompt]# mknod /dev/video1 c 81 1
[root prompt]# mknod /dev/video2 c 81 2
[root prompt]#
[root prompt]# ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

The following modules are loaded:

* videodev.o: The video4linux device module
* bttv.o: Driver for the Hauppauge card.
* i2c.o: Interface for bus to framegrabber.
* tuner.o: Tuner module to switch chanels.
* msp3400.o: Stereo

I then installed speakers on the audio output of the WinTV card and the cable TV coax to the cable TV/antenna [/code]

The other thing is that maybe artsd just died.
If you open up a terminal and then su to root and issue the command to restart arts (not sure what distro you are using, but it would be something similar to /etc/init.d/arts restart.

HTH

[phobik]

hi

the tv card is pci and is connected via a cable from the tv card out -to- audygy in.
im using slackware 10.
i think the card was detected ok, cos i see a load of loaded modules that i didnt have before.

ill have another go with it when i can be arsed but thanks for the input anyway

cheers

[pickarooney]

Does the soundcard work with the cable removed? Stupid question, but you have to start somewhere. Cheked Kmix or whatever equivalent for your window manager?