[ sorry, second posting - mailman was in action again ;) ] Am Do, den 12.08.2004 schrieb Huub van Niekerk um 17:04: > Running FC2, I had a sound problem. Using the hardware-browser to view > the soundcard, it showed both my VIA sound card and the web cam. > Whenever I used the sound card detection, it did work, but no sound. > Then the other day, I unplugged the cam, rebooted and voila, sound worked. > So now the situation is: since it apparently detects my web cam > correctly, it just seems not to know how to handle it. How can I make it > work? > Huub I can only guess what you problem is, because I don't fully understand your description. I guess you face the problem that when you boot with the webcam plugged in, you have no sound from your soundcard. Is this the case? The only workaround I know and use myself with my Philips PVC webcam is, to boot without the USB webcam plugged in. Later when system is up I do connect the camera. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp Serendipity 17:15:18 up 8 days, 10:42, load average: 1.32, 1.28, 1.30