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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:22:02
Message-Id: 201106040959.16183.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Friday 03 Jun 2011 21:10:29 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2
3 > When i start alsamixer and select with the "soundcard"-selector
4 > the audio device of my usb cam ... alsamixer crashes with:
5 >
6 > cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument
7 >
8 >
9 > ...still no sound via usb cam and it seems no chance to use alsamixer
10 > with it...damn...this /had/ worked and I dont know what it kills...
11 >
12 > mylinux:/home/user>aplay -l
13 > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
14 > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
15 > Subdevices: 2/2
16 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
17 > Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
18 > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT2020 Digital [VT2020 Digital]
19 > Subdevices: 2/2
20 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
21 > Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
22
23 Your camera's sound card is not shown here (stating the obvious).
24
25 Have you tried building it as a module and modprobe -v <driver> to see what
26 messages you get?
27
28 > mylinux:/home/user>arecord -l
29 > **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
30 > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
31 > Subdevices: 2/2
32 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
33 > Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
34 > card 1: CameraB404271 [USB Camera-B4.04.27.1], device 0: USB Audio [USB
35 > Audio] Subdevices: 1/1
36 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
37 [snip...]
38
39
40
41 > !!Loaded ALSA modules
42 > !!-------------------
43 >
44 >
45 >
46
47 I would suggest that you build alsa as modules at least for troubleshooting
48 purposes. I had to do that in the past to get things working in a box,
49 following the recommendation of the devs.
50
51 HTH.
52 --
53 Regards,
54 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview meino.cramer@×××.de
Re: [gentoo-user] Still haveing problems with audio and guvcview Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>