[01:13] <Pwen> Spiffydudex: quickly some commands useful to troubleshoot your problem: aplay -l (lists audio devices according to alsa), dmesg (system log, look for kernel module loaded for your sound device), alsamixer (mix volume levels/unmute channels etc), lspci/lsusb (list pci or usb devices)
[03:40] <Spiffydudex> Pwen: Alsamixer picks up the 950q as a digital in capture device, it does not show up in aplay at all, it only displays playback hardware, not capture. The driver for the 950q is loaded as I can see xc5000 listed everywhere. When I upgraded to 10.10 its like /dev/dsp1 disappeared.
[04:35] <Pwen> Spiffydudex: arecord -l does the same for recording hardware IIRC. dont have any more info for you, sounds like alsa is at fault though??? not sur
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[05:02] <Technophil> Anyone got any suggestions about the mythbuntu session that infrequently crashes to leave the Ubuntu style login?   Happens over night, several times now.
[05:24] <superm1> Technophil, if that's happening, best thing to do is enable apport to intercept the cras
[05:24] <superm1> there has been a few people indicating that their system is doing something similar, and it's sounding like it's potentially caused by the closed source nvidia driver failing.
[05:28] <Technophil> superm1: OK thanks for the lead, I'll check it out, presumably its in synaptic, will look.  Presuming that to be the case what is the best thing to do with the crash report?
[05:28] <superm1> Technophil, actually it's already installed by default, just normally disabled
[05:28] <superm1> modify /etc/default/apport and either start the service or restart the computer
[05:29] <superm1> when a crash happens, it will intercept and capture a crash report which is presented in the form of a dialog on next login
[05:29] <superm1> it will guide you through filing the report on launchpad
[05:29] <superm1> if you have autobuilds turned on, then i would recommend installing the mythtv-dbg package first too though
[05:31] <Technophil> superm1: Thanks, you guys are stars....
[05:37] <superm1> np, hopefully it gets a good crash report :)
[05:37] <Technophil> Yep, may take 2 weeks though....
[06:10] <BLZbubba> is there a better choice for a generic MCE remote than the Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all) ?
[06:10] <BLZbubba> many of the buttons, like the ones for jumping straight to videos, don't work
[06:12] <tgm4883> BLZbubba, you could define those in lirc
[06:18] <BLZbubba> yeah i have done that since 2005, i would just be so happy if i could find one of these presets that just works
[06:20] <tgm4883> BLZbubba, you could set it up and then file a bug
[06:20] <tgm4883> that way, we may incorporate your changes
[06:36] <BLZbubba> not a bad idea; i would just be surprised if i were the first one to run into this
[06:36] <BLZbubba> there are like 100 remotes to choose from and MCE remotes must be the most popular
[06:55] <Spiffydudex> Pwen: Thanks for the help. I'm beginning to wonder if it is Alsa as well. I'm not particularly smart at linux/ubuntu sound config though, and usually I thought when a new sound capture device was connected it made a new /dev/dsp# for it. Thanks, I'll report back if I find a simple fix
[06:56] <tgm4883> BLZbubba, you are probably not the first one to run into this. You might be the first one to care enough to file a bug report
[06:57] <superm1> personally i dont use a lot of those jumping buttons myself on my mce
[06:57] <superm1> so it wouldn't be surprise if they didn't work