Webcam in-built microphone problem

[James Griffin]

On 2014-01-29, Maciej Milewski <milu at dat.pl> wrote:
> 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

Yep, it works well. Thanks for your help Maciej. And to Matthias too.