From: Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 07:47:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110604114721.GB4200@gaurahari.merseine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gZVl7-3yX-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:30:01AM +0200, Mick wrote:
> 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.
>
I second that. For years I built the ALSA drivers into the kernel, but
for some reason that started giving me trouble some months back and
after switching to using modules instead it's back to being a carefree
setup.
--
caveat utilitor
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2011-06-04 11:47 ` Indi [this message]
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
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
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