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Old 12-08-2004, 02:29 PM   #1
doctorwebbox
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Debian thinks my webcam is a soundcard


We use Debian at my work. We are trying to set up a webcam, the first one we got wasn't supported but we have aquired a Sony Eyetoy camera that is supposed to be supported.

I tried to get it running at home but only got as far as getting a green screen so I thought I'd try it on the work machine. If I plug the cam in and boot then we have no sound and the cam isn't picked up by xawtv. The machine seems to recognise the cam as a soundcard.

Any ideas whats going on and how I can get around it?
 
Old 12-08-2004, 07:59 PM   #2
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if the cam has sound capabilities then it is a soundcard :-)

Running two sound devices can be a little tricky as it requires aliases to be setup in alsa.conf.

If it's a USB device try
Code:
 cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
and see if it's been recognised correctly.

Give this howto a thorough reading http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO/index.shtml
 
  


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