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. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
