| SparksIT | Is there a device manager for ubuntu, or how do I tell what devices it had detected and installed the drivers for? | 00:05 |
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| Azelphur | SparksIT: most drivers are in the kernel so you don't need to install drivers | 00:12 |
| SparksIT | thats what I figured, however I cannot output sound through the HDMI and while setup detected my 2TB HDD, it no longer sees in mythbuntu | 00:14 |
| Azelphur | ok lets attack the sound issue first | 00:14 |
| Azelphur | install the pavucontrol package | 00:14 |
| SparksIT | downloading | 00:15 |
| Azelphur | start it up and go to the configuration tab | 00:16 |
| Azelphur | is your device there? | 00:16 |
| Azelphur | you'll have something like "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output" in one of the dropdown boxes | 00:16 |
| tgm4883 | Azelphur, pavcontrol would imply he has pulseaudio, which we don't include in Mythbuntu | 00:18 |
| Azelphur | oh? | 00:18 |
| SparksIT | It looks like it installed but I do not see Digital Stereo HDMI Output, though I did escape out of Mythtv | 00:18 |
| tgm4883 | so it's probably best to check if he has Ubuntu or Mythbuntu | 00:18 |
| Azelphur | didn't realise it was pulled from mythbuntu :p | 00:18 |
| SparksIT | I used mythbunut | 00:18 |
| * Azelphur has no idea how to do this with alsa | 00:19 | |
| tgm4883 | Azelphur, yea I don't think we've ever shipped that | 00:19 |
| Azelphur | fun | 00:19 |
| tgm4883 | aplay -l | 00:19 |
| tgm4883 | that would list sound devices | 00:19 |
| Azelphur | My mythbuntu install seems to be running pulseaudio somehow | 00:19 |
| tgm4883 | Azelphur, then you installed something that pulled it in | 00:20 |
| tgm4883 | or you ran into an upgrade bug that did | 00:20 |
| Azelphur | must have | 00:20 |
| Azelphur | upgrade bug sounds like it, I've done a lot of upgrades :) | 00:20 |
| SparksIT | I see several devices, include 2 HDMI devices | 00:20 |
| SparksIT | when I ran set up, I selected both the HDMI's and ran the test, but neither worked | 00:22 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, have you checked alsamixer and verified that nothing is muted | 00:24 |
| tgm4883 | or attempted playing audio outside of mythtv | 00:24 |
| SparksIT | When I go to PulseAudio Volume Control, I get Connecto to PulseAudo Failed...I don't see a alsamixer | 00:25 |
| tgm4883 | is pulseaudio even installed? | 00:27 |
| SparksIT | it is an application, I would assume it was installed | 00:33 |
| tgm4883 | dpkg -l pulseaudio | 00:34 |
| SparksIT | it is listed as unknown | 00:35 |
| SparksIT | and not installed | 00:35 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 00:36 |
| SparksIT | should I install it? | 00:36 |
| tgm4883 | no | 00:37 |
| SparksIT | So I plugged in an usb stick with some avi files, still no sound | 00:43 |
| SparksIT | but in output mode fo alsa audio output, there are quite a few options to select | 00:44 |
| SparksIT | so far none have ouput sound | 00:54 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, sorry, I'm doing like 4 things at once here :/ | 00:55 |
| SparksIT | no problem, i'm in no rush | 00:56 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, so in the command line, you should be able to run alsamixer | 00:56 |
| tgm4883 | should show a volume control | 00:57 |
| tgm4883 | verify master or PCM is not muted or turned way down | 00:57 |
| SparksIT | neither is muted or turned down | 00:59 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, ok, found what I was looking for | 01:01 |
| tgm4883 | do 'aplay -L" | 01:01 |
| tgm4883 | aplay -L | 01:01 |
| tgm4883 | so different than last time | 01:01 |
| SparksIT | check...a few more devices have been listed | 01:02 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 01:02 |
| tgm4883 | so we're going to use speaker-test outside of mythtv | 01:02 |
| tgm4883 | using something like this speaker-test -Dhw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 -c2 -l2 -twav | 01:02 |
| tgm4883 | speaker-test -Dhw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 -c2 -l2 -twav | 01:02 |
| tgm4883 | where 'hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3' is the card | 01:02 |
| tgm4883 | which is what you got from aplay -L | 01:03 |
| SparksIT | any specific one, or just start at the top? | 01:05 |
| tgm4883 | without seeing the list, probably just start at the top | 01:05 |
| tgm4883 | even if I did see the list, I'd probably just guess anyway | 01:06 |
| tgm4883 | so the -c2 is going to test left channel then right channel | 01:06 |
| tgm4883 | -l2 is going to repeat the test, since on my system it appears to take a second to kick on so I don't actually hear the first left channel test | 01:06 |
| SparksIT | so I typed speaker-test -Dhw:Card=PCH,DEV=0 -c2 -12 -twav | 01:09 |
| SparksIT | and I get speake-test: invalide option --1 | 01:09 |
| tgm4883 | that is a lower case L | 01:10 |
| SparksIT | minus the spelling mistakes | 01:10 |
| SparksIT | ahhh...in that case i get Playback open error: 16,Device or resource busy | 01:11 |
| tgm4883 | hmm | 01:11 |
| tgm4883 | try a few more devices | 01:12 |
| SparksIT | I move on to hw:Card=PCH,DEV=3 and I get an output that looks successfull but no sound | 01:12 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, ok thats better | 01:13 |
| tgm4883 | go though them all and see if any play sound | 01:13 |
| SparksIT | bingo...I move on to hw:Card=PCH,DEV=7 and I heard sound | 01:14 |
| tgm4883 | awesome | 01:14 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, so lets go back into the frontend and see if we can select that card | 01:15 |
| SparksIT | back in the frontend, and I am selectin alsa:hw:CARD=PCH,DEV7 and i get that it is invalid or not useable. | 01:17 |
| tgm4883 | hmm | 01:18 |
| tgm4883 | can you do the speaker-test on the rest of the cards and see if any others produce sound? | 01:18 |
| SparksIT | sure...should I limit it to the hw section, I have soem that start with dsnoop, dmix, hdmi and so on? | 01:19 |
| tgm4883 | I'd go though them all | 01:20 |
| SparksIT | I only found 2 others, test both withen frontend, but I recieved the same error as before | 01:32 |
| SparksIT | I re-open VLC and open the avi clip again and selected one of the work devices, and I have sound with the clip | 01:40 |
| SparksIT | *known working devices* | 01:40 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, ok, so we can select it in other things besides mythtv and it works | 01:42 |
| tgm4883 | out of curiosity, can we reboot and try selecting it? | 01:42 |
| SparksIT | already in progress | 01:43 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 01:43 |
| SparksIT | that worked | 01:44 |
| tgm4883 | sweet | 01:45 |
| SparksIT | hate to rain on the parade, but now i get an error that it can not connect to the backend...which is odd has the PC is a host to both | 01:46 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 01:47 |
| tgm4883 | is the backend started | 01:47 |
| tgm4883 | I'm immune to rain. Pacific Northwest FTW | 01:47 |
| SparksIT | lol...when I go into the backend, I get a warning that it is currently running | 01:48 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 01:48 |
| tgm4883 | in the frontend, do you continue to get the warning it can't connect to the backend? | 01:49 |
| tgm4883 | like if you go to the recordings screen? | 01:49 |
| SparksIT | no, I can browse around, I only got it on boot | 01:50 |
| SparksIT | and when I went into the backend | 01:50 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, ah ok, so your machine is fast enough to boot up and get into the frontend before MySQL and mythbackend can finish starting | 01:51 |
| tgm4883 | so you get that error on boot, but then it goes away as the backend finishes starting | 01:51 |
| SparksIT | ahh...the OS is on a SDD | 01:51 |
| tgm4883 | yep that would probably do it | 01:52 |
| SparksIT | the other issue i was having was it is not detecting, by storage HDD, but if you don't have time thats fine. | 01:53 |
| SparksIT | you have helped me out quite a bit | 01:53 |
| SparksIT | and I appreciate it | 01:53 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, I recall you saying that earlier | 01:53 |
| tgm4883 | it saw it during install, but not now right? | 01:53 |
| SparksIT | correct | 01:53 |
| tgm4883 | yea, so it's because you haven't mounted it anywhere | 01:54 |
| tgm4883 | is it a blank drive or is there stuff on it? | 01:54 |
| SparksIT | blank, new out of box | 01:54 |
| tgm4883 | ok, what do you plan on using it for? | 01:55 |
| SparksIT | storage, i want all my recording to go to it as apposed to my SDD | 01:55 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 01:55 |
| tgm4883 | what is the output of sudo fdisk -l | 01:56 |
| tgm4883 | use pastebin | 01:56 |
| tgm4883 | !pastebin | 01:56 |
| Zinn | when pasting more than 5 lines of data please use http://mythbuntu.pastebin.com so you don't flood the channel. Then please post the link in the channel. | 01:56 |
| SparksIT | you will have to bare with me, my IRC client is on a different PC then the myth box | 01:58 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 01:58 |
| SparksIT | but id does se it at /dev/sda | 01:59 |
| tgm4883 | ok, so you are sure it is /dev/sda? | 01:59 |
| tgm4883 | otherwise we're going to format the wrong drive | 01:59 |
| SparksIT | it as it listed as Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4GB | 02:00 |
| SparksIT | the SDD is only 60GB | 02:00 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 02:00 |
| tgm4883 | so do | 02:00 |
| tgm4883 | sudo fdisk /dev/sda | 02:00 |
| SparksIT | I get a message about the device does not contain a vaild dos partiton... | 02:02 |
| SparksIT | it builds a DOS disk label | 02:03 |
| tgm4883 | ok so it built one? | 02:03 |
| SparksIT | says changes are only in memory | 02:03 |
| SparksIT | I also have an erro on device presents a logical sector size taht is smaller the the physical sector size | 02:04 |
| tgm4883 | Might want to take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive | 02:05 |
| Zinn | [help.ubuntu.com] InstallingANewHardDrive - Community Ubuntu Documentation | 02:05 |
| SparksIT | the instructins say, that if I am sharing between ubuntu and windows, I should use FAT32...I thought FAT32 was limited to 32 GB? | 02:13 |
| SparksIT | wouldn't NTFS be a better choice? | 02:14 |
| tgm4883 | SparksIT, how are you planning on sharing it with windows? | 02:15 |
| tgm4883 | a | 02:15 |
| tgm4883 | are you dual booting? | 02:15 |
| SparksIT | No...but if myth does not work out, I will be converting to Windows Media Center, and I don't want to lose any recordings | 02:16 |
| tgm4883 | IDK, you might have issues with NTFS and mythtv | 02:17 |
| tgm4883 | I'd recommend ext4, but that isn't compatible with windows | 02:17 |
| SparksIT | I'll go with ex4, if need be, I'll copy to another HDD if I have to switch | 02:19 |
| SparksIT | tgm4883...thanks for all your help, though I'm sure i will back another time | 02:49 |
| === zcutlip_ is now known as zcutlip | ||
| izzi4 | Any alternatives or guides to setup rrdtool on mythbuntu? | 16:04 |
| tgm4883 | izzi4, rddtool isn't mythtv specific, so any guides for ubuntu should work with mythbuntu as well | 16:19 |
| izzi4 | tgm4883, valid point, not sure why i was asking here. Thanks | 16:28 |
| zcutlip | hello--I'm reinstalling one of my mythtv front ends from scratch using mythbuntu 12.04. During setup when it prompts for the backend's pin, it hangs after clicking "test connection", and I can't skip this step. Any suggestions? | 23:43 |
| zcutlip | my frontend was previously 11.10, and I upgraded in place to 12.04, before today's wipe/reinstall. | 23:44 |
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