Hi Phil, On Thursday 19 February 2009 17:36:13 Phil Gorbett wrote: > Hi there, > > Dell's new wide screen monitor has an integrated webcam with a > two-microphone array. Googling about, it appears that no one has yet > got the mic's working. While the webcam video works a treat in > guvcview,
Thanks for the report. I've updated the supported devices list on the website. > the audio input does not show the webcam usbaudio. I have > been able to get the webcam usbaudio to show up as being active in > alsamixer, but tests of the mic capture fails with the error: > > gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink > profile=chat: Could not get/set settings from/on resource. > > The camera device itself is an Omivision with ID 05a9:2649. The lsusb > simple output lists two additional devices - 0424:2514 and 0424:2512, > both SMC devices and both listed as USB hubs in lsusb -v. I have > attached three addition files - outputs from lsusb -d -v for all three > devices. The output for the camera itself, i.e., 2649, indicates audio > functionality. The uvcvideo supported devices list indicates that while > both 2640 and 2646 Omivision webcams are supported, this particular > device (2649) is not. > > There seems to be a view from people having similar difficulty that the > SMC devices are the mics, but it appears to me that these are just the > USB interfaces and that the webcam driver itself provides audio > functionality. Does the monitor have extra USB ports ? If so the SMC devices are probably what they claim to be, USB hubs. > Any insights you have would be greatly appreciated by myself - and a > number of other people - with what is otherwise an excellent monitor. The audio function is part of the camera device (05a9:2649) and is handled by the usbaudio driver. You should contact the alsa-devel mailing list for help. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
