Quickcam video capture recognized but no sound [SOLVED]

HitMaker · Last edited by HitMaker on Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:35 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi, maybe its an stupid question but I am not able to make my quickcam E3500 work.

I enable in the kernel the gspca driver and the zc3xx driver for gspca, I compiled the driver as driver not as module

(system amd64 with kernel 2.6.30-r4)

Now, I have video, is perfect, but alsa doesn't recognized the new sound device so I can enable the microphone to record my voice.

I don't know what to do :oops:

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Apopatos · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 512 Location: Hellas

Usually the best way for sound cards and webcams is to build the drivers as modules, not inside the kernel.

HitMaker · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject:

Apopatos · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 512 Location: Hellas

Try to compile them as modules and tell us the output of lsmod -l.

HitMaker · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:22 pm Post subject:

I checked that also before and I think I had something wrong because the module, gspca_zc3xx shows 0 devices using it, it should be one right?

gspca_zc3xx 49672 0
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Apopatos · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 512 Location: Hellas

Yes it should be one but be sure that a program is using the webcam before you check with lsmod. If the webcam is idle then it will show 0.
Hmmm I had a similar problem with my Trust webcam. The module was loaded during boot but it couldn't find the device and the solution was just to unload and reload it again. So a guy from this forum made a script for me that did that thing and I put it to be loaded automatically during boot.

HitMaker · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:50 am Post subject:

Its weird, even using the video of the webcam with skype, it still shows 0!

I also installed libv4l... I don't know if it has something to do with it.

But anyway, alsaconf still doesn't detect the webcam so I can use the mic

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Apopatos · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 512 Location: Hellas

Weird, you said with gspca driver the video is perfect. But everywhere I checked they use your camer with the uvc driver. Maybe you should try it as well?
Also, I don't think so that alsaconf has to do with the webcam. Mine works perfectly but alsaconf doesn't detect it.

tuber · Apprentice Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 267

For the microphone, you probably have to enable the USB audio driver (Sound card support->ALSA->USB sound devices->USB Audio/MIDI driver).

HitMaker · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject:

Ok, Finally its working

, thanks a lot for the help!
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Apopatos · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 512 Location: Hellas

What was the problem finally?
Also, if you'd like plz write SOLVED in the topic's title

HitMaker · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject:

Well... the problem was the webcam microphone, which wasn't working, thanks to tuber I could fix it.

Thanks

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