Installing USB Microphone on FC6

Lee Duke · 12-13-2006, 10:28 PM

I've just installed FC6 and I'm trying to get my Logitec USB Microphone to work with the system. My Creative Labs (Audigy) sound card works fine with my speakers, but I didn't want to use the cheesy microphone that came with that. I know the Logitec microphone is good because it works fine on my Window$ machine.

Any help?

I'm trying to capture and process sound in real-time. I'm not currently trying to record.

Thanks.

GrueMaster · 12-14-2006, 12:43 AM

My first suggestion would be to check the version of alsa (cat /proc/asound/version) you have. If it's older than 1.0.14rc1, get the new one here. There has been a lot of usb audio support added in the last couple of months.

Lee Duke · 12-14-2006, 04:41 PM

I tried ALSA 1.0.14. Everything went well:
./configure
make
make install (as root)

Now, nothing works! Before (with 1.0.12) I could at least use my speakers through my sound card.

The entire sound system is floating face down in some stagnant pool. You got any other good ideas?

If I can't get the microphone to work, I'd be happy to just get back to having my speakers work.

GrueMaster · 12-14-2006, 09:22 PM

Check your mixer settings. Also, check to see if the new sound drivers are loaded (lsmod | fgrep snd). Check dmesg to see if there is any error messages.

I have the same version running here on my Audigy, and it works well. Full surround sound.

Lee Duke · 12-14-2006, 10:12 PM

This is what /sbin/lsmod | fgrep snd gets---

Quote:

snd_emu10k1_synth 11776 0
snd_emux_synth 39936 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 12032 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 10496 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 137888 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_ac97_codec 100260 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 6656 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_util_mem 9216 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hda_intel 25496 0
snd_hda_codec 197248 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_usb_audio 82944 2
snd_seq_dummy 8324 0
snd_seq_oss 39040 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11904 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 57968 8 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 47488 0
snd_mixer_oss 21248 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82692 6 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 26884 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_usb_lib 21376 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 28800 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device 12812 7 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep 13828 3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_audio
snd 61064 22 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio, snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmid i,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
snd_page_alloc 14472 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
soundcore 14113 1 snd

I don't know what any of it means.

Here's the part of dmesg that seems relevant:

Quote:

usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio
ALSA /home/duke/DOWNLOAD/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc1/acore/init.c:133: cannot find the slot for index 0 (range 0-0)
EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:02:01.0 failed with error -12
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185

I hope that gives you some clue so I can fix this.