Webcam and SBLive "conflict"?

[Jack Bowling]

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 at shaw.ca