On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 08:08 -0400, William Case wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
