alsa problem...

[barum87]

I've been using alsa driver without ANY problem until two days ago.

I use via82xx driver. [I simply do alsaconf and that has been working really well]

Recently I've switched to KDE. [and I love it]


And two days ago a message came up upon KDE start up. It said something about sound server not working correctly.

So I thought it was a temporary problem and reloaded alsa driver by doing "/etc/init.d/alsasound restart" and then I restarted arts sound system, and it did solve the problem.

But when I rebooted, the same problem came up and I had to do the same thing to get sound out of my computer.
[I tried alsamixer and it seemed to be working well. There was no error message during the boot]


So I thought I should reemerge the alsa stuff and I did, which resulted in another weird situation.

Now when I reboot, and do alsamixer, it gives me something like camera, usb (can't even remember) and just one volume control that cannot be adjusted.

So now I have to do alsaconf + alsasound restart + arts restart.

What might be the problem??

PS. weird thing is that it doesn't give me ANY error message now, and it doesn't work....

[barum87]

After posting this question, the "usb camera" reminded me of the web cam that I recently plugged in.

And wow I unpluged it and rebooted; now everything works fine.
[maybe because that webcam had a microphone on it.]


Hmm is there anyway to get this webcam thing working on gentoo?

And I really want to know if there is a way to prevent my system from recognizing my webcam as my sound device

[mattmatteh]

guessing

the camer with the sound stuff might have taken the default sound path ? like /dev/mixer

and the sound card getting bumped to the next path like like /dev/mixer1 ?

try plugging in the camera after the sound works and se what happens

matt