no sound with webcam

[angelbeast]

Hello again...Dell Inspiron with integrated webcam and dual mic. I don't seem to be able to record any sound. all audio OUTPUT seems just fine. Is there something i can change a setting on or something? Oh and on USTREAM it does detect the mic but i just can't record any sound. Not just on USTREAM...

[GoinEasy9]

Go to System-->Preferences-->Sound-->Hardware and/or Input and make sure the webcam is properly set up as your sound device. I remember when setting up my Dell laptop with Skype it was aggravating.

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by GoinEasy9

Go to System-->Preferences-->Sound-->Hardware and/or Input and make sure the webcam is properly set up as your sound device. I remember when setting up my Dell laptop with Skype it was aggravating.

Hi GE...Thanks for your reply...I looked but i don't seem to have many options available...I also looked in the sound info and it looks like a lot of stuff is disabled? I don't know if it's supposed to be like that but i'm including a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about...

[GoinEasy9]

Sorry, but I haven't used KDE with fedora yet, so I can't help you with the apps that set the preferences with sound. Is Kmix still around with KDE4? When I used KDE back in the 3.5 days, right clicking on the speaker icon would bring me to sound preferences and I could adjust the types of devices and levels from there.

Maybe someone who uses KDE can be more specific as to which apps to use. I see your screenshot has Alsa, but no mention of pulseaudio, and, my setups all configure pulseaudio.

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by GoinEasy9

Sorry, but I haven't used KDE with fedora yet, so I can't help you with the apps that set the preferences with sound. Is Kmix still around with KDE4? When I used KDE back in the 3.5 days, right clicking on the speaker icon would bring me to sound preferences and I could adjust the types of devices and levels from there.

Maybe someone who uses KDE can be more specific as to which apps to use. I see your screenshot has Alsa, but no mention of pulseaudio, and, my setups all configure pulseaudio.

Yeah i'm just totally lost *LOL* ... I do have pulseaudio somewhere on here...i'm new to kde too...i tried it a few years ago for a few days but went back to gnome but now i want ot try it more long term...i guess i shouldn't go to something i'm new at during a preview release hehe

[AdamW]

check the KDE System Settings thing, it should include a sound devices config applet.

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by AdamW

check the KDE System Settings thing, it should include a sound devices config applet.

Where do i find the settings? I saw something for KDE resources but it wasn't really what i was looking for...

[AdamW]

I don't know in detail, I don't use KDE. I'm vaguely remembering from testing KDE 4.1 back when I worked for Mandriva.

[BugRocks1]

Are you using pulseaudio?

Try loading the loopback module.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...light=loopback

The post #11
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...light=loopback

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by BugRocks1

Are you using pulseaudio?

Try loading the loopback module.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...light=loopback

The post #11
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...light=loopback

ugh...i can't find any options that look like that for any of the audio

[BugRocks1]

Install pavucontrol and you will see those options also gmixer can be great to check the other mixers(i.e. alsa, gstreamer):

yum install pavucontrol gmixer

After that try loading the loopback module:

pactl load-module module-loopback

ps: to make that persistent between boots you need to add(or uncoment) that in /etc/pulse/default.pa

If your microphone still doesn't work you could try enabling pulse in gnome if you use gnome.

Gnome configuration for gstreamer/pulseaudio

gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink pulsesink
gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc pulsesrc
gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink pulsesink
gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/chataudiosink pulsesink

To see all options you can use:

gconftool-2 --dump /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/

Not sure if it works though.

The long key descriptions in "gconf-editor" show this:

- If the software you are using uses DSP you may need to start it using padsp.

Software

∘ gmixer
∘ pavucontrol
∘ gconf-editor
∘ pactl
∘ pacmd
∘ padsp
∘ parec
∘ paplay
∘ pasuspender
∘ alsamixer
∘ amixer

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You also may want to read the "Perfect Setup"

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

[smr54]

One last thing I'll throw out, simply because I ran into it on Ubuntu Lucid, but on only one machine (out of installs on two fairly similar Asus netbooks).

After installing pavucontrol, if you go to devices, you'll see two sliders for the microphone. They're linked together but the second icon from the right (which was an unintuitive one in the Ubuntu Gnome interface) will unlock it. Slide one slider, doesn't matter which, to the left.

That fixed the problem, in Ubuntu, for a few people, including myself. I haven't had the problem in Fedora, so have no idea if it will help.

[angelbeast]

ugh...i dunno...i'm totally lost now *LOL*

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Okay it gets weirder and weirder...in skype i can hear the test call but not record...in amsn i can neither hear anything or record...i've about had it...ha