Re: ALSA problem?
On 2010-04-03 18:38, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
* Stephen Powell [100403 19:06 -0400]
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:00:11 -0400 (EDT), Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
That can't be right. What's the output of amixer?
The udev system recoognized a usb webcam as an audio device
(snd-usb-audio) and it becomes soundcard 0 in ALSA's card devices.
alsamixer by default uses soundcard 0. See alsamixer(1). Webcams
don't have a mixer device.
Aha! Good catch. I missed that. And now the obvious question is,
"Why?" Why does udev think that that a webcam is a sound card?
Isn't the right solution to this problem to prevent a webcam
from being misidentified as a sound card?
Will be fixed next upload of alsa-base.
There is already a bug:
That doesn't answer why udev thinks webcam is an audio card.
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