Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> I was wondering if you could lend me a hand or offer some suggestion
> on a strange matter I'm confronting with.
>
> I have taken a PS3 Eye Webcam from my PS3 and placed it into my USB
> port on the home computer.
>
> So far so good, I also compiled the video driver made for it but this
> is not the subject of this problem.
>
> Whenever I try running for example alsactl store I get:
>
> # alsactl store
> alsactl: get_control:262: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture
> Volume,0': Invalid argument
>
> the webcam is seen as:
>
> cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [Audigy ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090]
> Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at
> 0xb880, irq 23
> 1 [CameraB304061 ]: USB-Audio - USB Camera-B3.04.06.1
> OmniVision Technologies, Inc. USB
> Camera-B3.04.06.1 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-5.1, hi
>
> also:
>
> #dpkg -l | grep alsa
> ii alsa-base
> 1.0.17.dfsg-2ubuntu1 ALSA driver configuration files
> ii alsa-utils 1.0.17-0ubuntu3
> ii gstreamer0.10-alsa
> 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
>
> Running system is an Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-14-server.
>
>
> I did some digging and asked around and on the ps3 driver forum (the
> one for the video) the guys stated that the microphone worked very
> well by default without their intervention or any special driver adding.
> So I guess alsa picked it up and it was ok from the start. What I
> don't know is what kernel version they were using and what alsa
> version, what compile flags, etc.
>
>
> Can you help me solve this issue if anyone ever ran into something
> similar ?
> I'm really stuck with it and no idea what to do next.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mihai
>
I also wanted to add this ...maybe it helps:
cat /proc/asound/cards
root@Mihai:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Audigy ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090]
Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at
0xb880, irq 23
1 [CameraB304061 ]: USB-Audio - USB Camera-B3.04.06.1
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. USB
Camera-B3.04.06.1 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-5.1, hi
~# alsamixer -c 1
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument
Any idea what I could do to fix this ?
Thanks,
Mihai
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