I had the same issue when setting up a remote frontend yesterday. I fixed it by setting the mythfrontend binary suid root. Not the best solution, but it works for me.
-Nate On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:22:10 +0000, M. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I'm not a developer, so it's nearly impossible for me to troubleshoot by > looking at the source, but I was running a version of CVS in October, and > last night I updated my CVS and now I'm having massive sound failures that > cause Myth to be totally unusable. > > First, without changing any of the previous settings, I went to watch Live > TV and I got a message saying that /dev/mixer wasn't a valid device and > couln't be accessed. After a little research on the dev mailing list > archives I see that it said to put "default" as the mixer device. I also > use software-dmix settings and an .asoundrc file so it uses digital audio. > > Second, and this is the problem that basically makes Myth unusable, is > that after about 20-30 seconds of watching TV... I get WriteAudio: buffer > underrrun errors repeatidly until I exit to the main menu. This causes the > video and audio to go into a slow motion convulsion. I have submitted a bug > report because it had worked in all previous versions of myth since .15 just > fine. I also reinstalled ALSA just in case and update from 1.07RC2 to the > latest release of 1.07 to verify it wasn't something wrong with that. > > Unfortuantly, there is (was) an overwhelming amount of reasons I used CVS > over .16 (functionality, features, and fixes). I know that a lot of work > went into supposidly "fixing" ALSA in the current CVS, but I don't really > think it has fixed much besides breaking Myth. I'm not even sure how to > troubleshoot or fix this problem at this point. Anyone have any ideas? > > _________________________________________________________________ > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar â get it now! > http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > > >
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