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No sound w/ tv tuner under mdk 8.1 - yes, one more

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From: Ixtler
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 04:48
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Hello.
I'm just another guy with an old problem.
I have installed Mandrake 8.1 on my computer - Celeron 600 MHz, Abit
SL6 i815 MB, 384 MB RAM.
I have a Jetway bt878 TV Tuner board (same as KWorld and Wayjet boards
- if you wonder about these, they're all some Taiwan-based companies).
It works just well under Windows98se.
The tuner board is linked to the sound-board (Creative SB 128 PCI) via
a jumper-cable that goes from the sound output of the TV Tuner to the
line-in of the sound board.
The sound board works, as I have sound with other apps, XMMS, media
players etc.
The problem is I get no sound with xawtv nor other TV tuner
application - Zapper or GnomeTV, it's the same, under KDE and Gnome.
I have set the card as following(some people on IRC gave me this, the
most help I got on this issue yet):
rmmod bttv; insmod card=34 tuner=1
card=34 means Leadtek WinTV 2000. (or something like this)
I have tried a few other numbers for the card from the CARDLIST file,
but none of them managed to give me a clear picture. I still have to
try out the rest of them.
I have managed to tune into all the stations on cable.
The AUMixer is all set, with the sound source as Line In, all volumes
at maximum, but I still don't get any sound.
The volume control on xawtv is on, but even with it's volume up to
100%, there's not even a shadow of sound.

I have heard of a 'rough' method to make this work - while under
Windows, with the TV Tuner app on, just reset the computer, and when
you'll start up xawtv or any other similar app, you'll get sound!
Haven't got a chance to try it yet...

I'm sure there's a way to get this working, through some config file,
but I'm still a newbie when it comes to Linux, so I'd appreciate any
help, and I'm sure I won't be the only one...
Thanks.
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Subject: No sound w/ tv tuner under mdk 8.1 - yes, one more
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