Re: [Alsa-user] PS3 Eye Microphone issues..help pls

[Mihai T. <mi...@du...>]

Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> I was wondering if you could lend me a hand or offer some suggestion 
> on a strange matter I'm confronting with.
>
> I have taken a PS3 Eye Webcam from my PS3 and placed it into my USB 
> port on the home computer.
>
> So far so good, I also compiled the video driver made for it but this 
> is not the subject of this problem.
>
> Whenever I try running for example alsactl store I get:
>
> # alsactl store
> alsactl: get_control:262: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture 
> Volume,0': Invalid argument
>
> the webcam is seen as:
>
> cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [Audigy         ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090]
>                      Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at 
> 0xb880, irq 23
> 1 [CameraB304061  ]: USB-Audio - USB Camera-B3.04.06.1
>                      OmniVision Technologies, Inc. USB 
> Camera-B3.04.06.1 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-5.1, hi
>
> also:
>
> #dpkg -l | grep alsa
> ii  alsa-base                                  
> 1.0.17.dfsg-2ubuntu1                    ALSA driver configuration files
> ii  alsa-utils                                 1.0.17-0ubuntu3         
> ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                         
> 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1                      GStreamer plugin for ALSA
>
> Running system is an Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-14-server.
>
>
> I did some digging and asked around and on the ps3 driver forum (the 
> one for the video) the guys stated that the microphone worked very 
> well by default without their intervention or any special driver adding.
> So I guess alsa picked it up and it was ok from the start. What I 
> don't know is what kernel version they were using and what alsa 
> version, what compile flags, etc.
>
>
> Can you help me solve this issue if anyone ever ran into something 
> similar ?
> I'm really stuck with it and no idea what to do next.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mihai
>

I also wanted to add this ...maybe it helps:

cat /proc/asound/cards

root@Mihai:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Audigy         ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090]
                      Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at 
0xb880, irq 23
 1 [CameraB304061  ]: USB-Audio - USB Camera-B3.04.06.1
                      OmniVision Technologies, Inc. USB 
Camera-B3.04.06.1 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-5.1, hi

~# alsamixer -c 1

alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument


Any idea what I could do to fix this ?


Thanks,
Mihai