Am Freitag, 19. September 2003 13:44 schrieb Fabrice Alphonso: > Le ven 19/09/2003 à 13:22, Chris Rankin a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have a USB webcam with a built-in microphone working under > > Linux, please? I have a Linux box that can only receive a meeting at the > > moment because a) the microphone doesn't work > > b) the sound card is only half-duplex anyway > > c) it also has no webcam > > > > Adding a USB webcam with a builtin microphone seems like an idea > > solution, especially since I see that ALSA supports USB audio. > > > > So does anyone recommend any particular makes / models, please? Of course, we don't recommend any brands, but many people will tell you that the Philips based ones are working really good. :-) > i have a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 which works very good. > With the latest kernel version you have to use the kernel module pwc and > to add the binary only module pwcx which add compression to enable the > size requested by GM (iirc). > until now it was adviced to use OSS usb-audio module, as the one from > ALSA was not really good (once, iirc), but i didn't followed to much the > evolution and perhaps that with latest version of ALSA it is working > good now, moreover now that ALSA is provided with kernel 2.6. The problem was IIRC pwlib trying to open the device read-write, which failed, of course, but this has been corrected, so one should use ALSA with OSS-Emulation (or GM CVS, which has native ALSA support, but is broken at the moment, AFAIK). Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Kastanienweg 6 - Zimmer 1206 / 52074 Aachen mailto:lurch gmx li http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~lurchi/ fax: +49-89-1488204565 phone: +49-160-7532733
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