* Stephen Powell [100403 19:06 -0400] > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:00:11 -0400 (EDT), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: > >> That can't be right. What's the output of amixer? > > > > The udev system recoognized a usb webcam as an audio device > > (snd-usb-audio) and it becomes soundcard 0 in ALSA's card devices. > > > > alsamixer by default uses soundcard 0. See alsamixer(1). Webcams > > don't have a mixer device. > > Aha! Good catch. I missed that. And now the obvious question is, > "Why?" Why does udev think that that a webcam is a sound card? > Isn't the right solution to this problem to prevent a webcam > from being misidentified as a sound card?
Will be fixed next upload of alsa-base. There is already a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574593 http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-alsa/?op=rss&rev=2385&sc=1&isdir=1 > Changing the priorities of multiple sound cards makes sense if > there really are multiple sound cards, but if there's really only > one then why not try to prevent the misidentification in the first > place? It is just sorted by the order of the bus check while booting. Elimar -- Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100403233803.ga4...@aragorn.home.lxtec.de