Webcam and SBLive "conflict"?
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 9 20:09:52 UTC 2003
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:21:29AM -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Anyone else out there experience problems with webcams and soundcards?
>
> I've got Fedora Core 1 installed on a machine with an SB Live! card and
> a Logitech QuickCam 4000. Because the camera also has a sound device
> (microphone), Fedora is "seeing" this as a sound device. It also appears
> that esd is using this device by default. A dmesg listing shows that any
> sound attempts are timing out:
>
> usbaudio: dma timed out??
>
> Also, the gnome mixer applet seems to only be able to control the
> microphone device. Now if I unplug the webcam and reboot, the SBLive
> works once again once Kudzu yanks about 4-5 "instances" of the webcam
> from it's "database".
>
> Any ideas on a workaround or do I need to bugzilla this? This is a
> dual-boot machine, and it's a pain to have to remember to yank the
> webcam when I'd rather be using Fedora.
If you are using the stock OSS sound subsystem, a replacement by ALSA
usually gets everything working.
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Jack Bowling
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