built-in mic XFCE 2010 32bit [SOLVED]

[jozefk]

Hello everyone,

I have a Logitech C200 USB webcam with built-in mic and I can't figure out how to set up the mic correctly to work with Pulseaudio and Alsa. This is PCLOS 2010 XFCE Phoenix 32bit.
I know how to do it in Gnome but XFCE is different it seems.
Also, I think I have both ALSA and OSS running together in the same time at the moment.
I have 5.1 PCI soundblaster and using pulseaudio coz it can distribute stereo sound on all speakers (5+1). If the same could be achieved without Pulse and if the Pulse is the cause of my mic not functioning properly, I'm willing to loose it.
Another thing is PulseAudio check mark in Control Center. It's always unchecked. I can check it but the check mark disappears always by itself.
I have few screenshots attached so please see them and let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks!

Best,
Jozsef

[jozefk]

Third screenshot I was unable to attach in initial post so here it is.

Edit: was wrong attachment. replaced the image.

[Was_Just19]

I can only make comment about a recent install of Pulse in KDE, so take it as you wish as it may differ from your situation .....

When Pulse is correctly installed with the various other packages, such as volume control and device chooser etc etc  the only option in the KDE multimedia section is Pulse.
The PCC tick box mentioned above does as you describe ......  seems redundant.

Pulse replaces OSS. I even went so far as to remove any OSS snd modules remaining ....  but that was going a bit further than needed, and I did it to see if any app I use complained.

Kmix was no longer doing anything so I removed that also.
Pulse Vol Ctrl is the only active one.
EDIT:    I figured out where I was going wrong and have Kmix operating again. Interesting .....  I Kmix vol control seems to control a portion of the full range .....  or something like that .....  I guess I had a misetting when I first tried it.

Alsamixer shows Pulse as the default sound card, with minimal adjustments.
It can display HDA Nvidia as another sound card .......  but I have not played with that at all. That has lots of adjusters.

My wecam Mic can also be displayed as another sound device

Anyway, I have not resorted to Alsamixer since installing Pulse.

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I also have Xfce DE installed as an alternate to KDE4 and have no apparent problems there with Pulse. In fact it is even better as Xfce has a volume changing applet in the tray which I don't yet have in KDE4 
The same Pulse controls with the same devices etc etc are available in Xfce.
It would appear Pulse is DE agnostic ....... or seems so by what I see here ....

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It appears to me you have an incomplete install of Pulse.
I don't know if it can be corrected by installing any missing packages.
 
I have no problem using
Webcam Mic
Wireless headset ... including Mic
Mic plugged into the sound card
Sound over BlueTooth ....  for the first time ever! I can even play music into the BT earpiece which is normally used with the phone!

My short experience - on only one PC - indicates to me that Pulse is an absolute marvel, but it does need to get installed properly, else things do not work as they should.

***

I know the above does not directly address your problem, but maybe something in there might give you some ideas.

As you are using Pulse then the more important (IMO) pics would be pics of the various tabs in Pulse Volume Control ......  particularly the Configuration Tab, which should show your Webcam Mic ....  is it even turned on?

regards.

[jozefk]

Thanks for reply.

I have some info about hardware, might be useful to see as well:

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-Computer-
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Memory : 2064MB (296MB used)
Operating System : PCLinuxOS
User Name : jozefk
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bridge
stp
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-Input Devices-
 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
 ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse
 Power Button
 Power Button
 UVC Camera (046d:0802)
 PC Speaker


-USB Devices-
-EHCI Host Controller-
Unknown USB 2.00 Device (class 239)
My Book
-UHCI Host Controller-
-UHCI Host Controller-
-Generic USB Hub-
ISSCBTA
-UHCI Host Controller-
-UHCI Host Controller-
In the mean time I was thinking what to do and got few ideas:
1) use Gnome if things can't be fixed in XFCE. but I'm not 100% sure things would be different in Gnome since the Gnome I used before was not with PCLOS
2) install virtualbox and see if webcam will work on windows inside virtualbox. I installed virtualbox but it won't start of course I guess it's not possible to use vbox in PCLOS. error message is this (same for both root and regular user):

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[jozefk@localhost .pulse]$ VirtualBox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[jozefk@localhost .pulse]$
3) why not try e17 live version and see what's going on there. so I did that. boot live e17 PCLOS 2010 and didn't enable pulse. installed skype, go to options and there we go: a lot of options and choices for mic and speakers... did a test call and mic works fine.

So my conclusion was that I could stay with XFCE and to disable pulseaudio when I want to use mic on skype. Boot back to XFCE, disabled pulse, opened Skype but pulse is still there as only one option ) On IRC channel clarjon1 said I have to killall pulseaudio and create ~/.pulse/client.conf file with only one line: autospawn = no
That's what I did, restarted Skype and there we go: same as with e17, a lot of otpions for audio. Chose my USB mic and did test call and it's working.
This is only solution I have for now. If someone else has some other idea please let me know. Thanks

Best,
Jozsef

[Was_Just19]

So my conclusion was that I could stay with XFCE and to disable pulseaudio when I want to use mic on skype. Boot back to XFCE, disabled pulse, opened Skype but pulse is still there as only one option Smiley) On IRC channel clarjon1 said I have to killall pulseaudio and create ~/.pulse/client.conf file with only one line: autospawn = no
That's what I did, restarted Skype and there we go: same as with e17, a lot of otpions for audio. Chose my USB mic and did test call and it's working.
This is only solution I have for now. If someone else has some other idea please let me know. Thanks Smiley

Best,
Jozsef

Well I can only comment on my installation in which the audio in now fully controlled by Pulse and in fact I do not have a means of 'switching it off'.
Skype has only one option as do all other audio apps and that is Pulse.

The Mics are then controlled by the pulse vol control and config manager as are all other devices.

Maybe you do not have Pulse Volume Control and or Pulse Device Chooser installed?
Without them you cannot control stuff through Pulse, from what I can see ......

[jozefk]

Yes that's what I'm missing: the Pulse Volume Control and Pulse Device Chooser. Those are installed by default in Gnome. Don't know how to get them in XFCE.
If I search for "pulse" in Synaptic, result is attached in two images.

[jozefk]

Second image. I must to upload images somewhere else in the future it seems It would be easier..

[Was_Just19]

They are in your first pic ...........  pavucontrol, padevchooser .......  install those at minimum, but you should look to see if anything else related to Pulse might be useful also - for instance vlc-plugin-pulse if you use VLC etc etc

[jozefk]

Now in Skype I don't have sound at all. No sound no mic no nothing. Other apps works with Pulse great now. Even better then before.







What is wrong with Skype now I have no idea

[Was_Just19]

Hold on a moment and see if I can find something ......


do this -- create the asound file as instructed

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,71536.msg588873.html#msg588873

[jozefk]

Did that, rebooted and still no difference with Skype. Other apps works the same as before creating asound.conf in /etc

[jozefk]

I tried to boot live 2010 gnome edition. Everything works out of the box. Pulse is enabled by default and I can select USB webcam as Input device, run skype which is there by default as well and no problem at all. So sad. Must be something is missing or it's wrong here. Maybe to remove Pulse Audio Device Chooser...
And that Sound manager in Gnome is different than this Pulse Sound Control I installed in XFCE. Might be that's also a reason. But I don't know if I can get that Sound manager installed in XFCE.

[jozefk]

Solved!

I disabled pulse and killall pulseaudio. Renamed all conf and other files I made regarding sound and tried to create asound.conf and .asoundrc to have stereo on 5+1 but it didn't work. So I renamed those files as well and put Pulse back. After reboot Skype start working Have no idea why.
Thanks for everything.

Best,
Jozsef

[Was_Just19]

Glad to hear things worked out for you