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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:59:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106040959.16183.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110603201029.GA3682@solfire>

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On Friday 03 Jun 2011 21:10:29 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> When i start alsamixer and select with the "soundcard"-selector
> the audio device of my usb cam ... alsamixer crashes with:
> 
>   cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> ...still no sound via usb cam and it seems no chance to use alsamixer
> with it...damn...this /had/ worked and I dont know what it kills...
> 
> mylinux:/home/user>aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
>   Subdevices: 2/2
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT2020 Digital [VT2020 Digital]
>   Subdevices: 2/2
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

Your camera's sound card is not shown here (stating the obvious).

Have you tried building it as a module and modprobe -v <driver> to see what 
messages you get?

> mylinux:/home/user>arecord -l
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
>   Subdevices: 2/2
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> card 1: CameraB404271 [USB Camera-B4.04.27.1], device 0: USB Audio [USB
> Audio] Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[snip...]



> !!Loaded ALSA modules
> !!-------------------
> 
> 
> 

I would suggest that you build alsa as modules at least for troubleshooting 
purposes.  I had to do that in the past to get things working in a box, 
following the recommendation of the devs.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-04  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-03 18:32 [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview meino.cramer
2011-06-03 18:55 ` Paul Hartman
2011-06-03 20:10   ` meino.cramer
2011-06-04  8:59     ` Mick [this message]
2011-06-04 11:42       ` meino.cramer
2011-06-04 19:13         ` Mick
2011-06-04 20:56           ` meino.cramer
2011-06-04 22:25             ` Mick
2011-06-05  3:51               ` meino.cramer
2011-06-05 12:35                 ` Mick
2011-06-05 12:53                   ` meino.cramer
2011-06-05 16:56                     ` Mick
2011-06-05 17:03                       ` meino.cramer
2011-06-05 17:41                         ` Mick
2011-06-04 23:29       ` Paul Hartman
     [not found] <gZHrQ-5lZ-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <gZHLc-5Nq-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <gZJ0B-84I-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <gZVl7-3yX-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-06-04 11:47       ` Indi

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