Hi Clemens;
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:20 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
William Case wrote:
Alsa seems unable to find my audio analog chip
set; put another way I
can't get any sound from analog cable tv with tvtime -- apparently
because alsa is not providing the sound.
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xe5300000 irq 16
Looking at the kernel source, it appears that the cx23885 driver does
not have audio recording support.
The TV tuner and sound card do not seem to be
communicating.
Is there an audio cable between the tuner's output and the motherboard's
line-in (or other analog input)?
No. There is no physical external line/cable. My understanding is that
the PCIe bus is supposed to take care of that now. In my travels through
google and various mail lists many people with new tuner cards do not
have external cables either and are having the same problem.
To quote from a series of exchanges I have had on the Fedora users
mailing list regarding a line-in.
"
I wonder what kind of Line input this is? You
keep on pointing
out
that you haven't placed a cable between tv
card and onboard
audio,
but even with onboard audio 'Line' and
'Mic' are external
input
jacks, aren't they?
That is the $64,000 question. (You might be too young to
remember the $64,000 question.)
That was what started me on this whole "what do controls do?"
quest and trying to figure out various possible control
combinations. Using 'Line' or Line-in on my setup didn't seem
logical. It still doesn't.
I have external receptacles on my motherboard at the back of my
computer box -- one light green for incoming sound, and one
light red (pink) for a microphone. Double checked visually and
in my motherboard manual.
*However* my tv tuner card has no sound output receptacle, did
not come with a line to use as an external connection line and
shows no external hookups in its manual. Besides, I have looked
several times and there is no no receptacle for line-out. I
have tried experimenting with earphones. The receptacle on the
tuner card that does exist is for sound-in for a satellite dish.
On my old computer, the tv tuner did have an external line-out
to a
sound card line-in. So I am familiar with what I am looking
for. I do not have an external line plugged into on this
computer's sound. "
Sorry, I forgot to include that info.
By the way, I have a dual boot system. When I boot into WindowsXP the
TV works; picture, sound and all. So, a physical external sound line-in
is not required for the drivers in M$.
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 22.3.1