On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 10:24 +0100, fabrizio gennari wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a PC with Fedora Core 6, and the on-board VIA 8235 sound chip > is detected by ALSA. > > I tried connecting a Microsoft LiveCam USB webcam with built-in > microphone (ID 045e:00f7) to the USB port and boot the PC. The webcam > is not detected by the Video4Linux subsystem, but this is not the worst > part. Now, the sound card does not work properly: every attempt of > opening /dev/dsp for writing fails with "Permission denied". > > The kernel is the stock one (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6), there are alsa-lib- > 1.0.12-2.fc6 and alsa-utils-1.0.12-3.fc6. I could not find anything > suspect in dmesg's output. > > What else should I try (apart from disconnecting the webcam and > rebooting)? Mine did the same thing. Run the soundcard detect app, when I did I found both the webcam and my soundcard listed. I checked the soundcard and ran the test sound to be sure. The soundcard works just fine and so does the webcam. Go figure. Ric
