Comments on: ALSA not recognizing soundcard when webcam plugged in at boot time

By: playstation eye mic not being loaded after reboot

playstation eye mic not being loaded after reboot — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:06:24 +0000

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By: Motion Detection Part 1 – Initial Motivation « Not For Production

Motion Detection Part 1 – Initial Motivation « Not For Production — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:46:31 +0000

[...] If the webcam is plugged in at boot-time, then system sound does not work properly. There are a few solutions for this, (adding an index option to modprobe.conf) [...]

By: Georg

Georg — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:35:01 +0000

Thanks for this nice hint!

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:04:29 +0000

Excellent! Works for me on Fedora 9 x86_64

By: uphill

uphill — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:12:05 +0000

hmmm, people here use skype and i haven’t heard this complaint…yet. I’ll have to try this myself, I guess you can tell in the test call?

By: Dan Allen

Dan Allen — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:59:54 +0000

Rats, although the sound works perfectly in most programs, for some reason Skype will only give me one channel on playback when using this fix. If I leave the webcam unplugged on boot, sound in Skype works as expected. I can’t figure out what the difference is. It must be some minor module.

By: Dan Allen

Dan Allen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:02:42 +0000

Thanks so much! You saved the day! I was getting tired of having to remember what I needed to have unplugged when I booted my computer. I have RHEL5 with a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 and this configuration change was just the trick I needed for my regular soundcard to be enabled on boot when leaving the webcam permanently plugged in.