Webcam in-built microphone problem

[Maciej Milewski]

On 28.01.2014 18:13, James Griffin wrote:
> On 2014-01-28, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>
>> If you have /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer the default file
>> /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf will work;
>>
>> 	matthias
>>
> Ok, got Skype with microphone working. 
>
> Had to edit the file /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf
>
> pcm.oss2 {
> 	...
> 	device /dev/dsp2
> 	...
> 		Description " ... Webcam"
> }
>
> ctl.oss2 {
> 	...
> 	device /dev/mixer2
> 	...
> 		Description " ... Webcam"
> }
>
> ... added to the file. So essentially adding a second copy of the text
> in there with a second device number; in my case, I chose 2 because
> that's what dmesg | grep uaudio showed the camera had been attached to. 
>
> Hope that makes sense???

As long as that works fine - that makes sense :)

Maciej