My video Camera has stopped working SOLVED

[Member namida12]

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marcelocripe,

Quote: “Namida12, você tentou instalar o pulseaudio no antiX para obter o som do microfone?
Alguns dispositivos ou programas começam a funcionar após a instalação do pulseaudio.”

No next step… In process in setting up another desktop with antix 19.4 to see if that works…
for weekly Video…

Will keep you informed…

JR

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Is there any way to poll antiX-21 users, to find someone who successfully uses an external webcam for the Google Meet you say you need for conferencing with family? If so, you could ask which make & model of webcam they’re using. If it’s different, then you could test that alternate webcam. If it’s the same logitech as yours, then you could inquire for the details of their setup.

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Trolling through other forums showed the webcam should work with sound.
One user reported below helped him.
/etc/pulse/default.pa
appended with
set-default-source alsa_input.usb-046d_HD_Pro_Webcam_C920_371A4CCF-02-C920.analog-stereo

https://askubuntu.com/questions/31206/how-can-my-audio-input-always-be-the-webcam-microphone
may be of interest.

My daughter has been using a Logitech C310 HD for Zoom etc without issues
but that is a lesser and old chipset. We had to always plugin before booting.

[Member marcelocripe]

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Some devices or programs start working after pulseaudio is installed.

Namida12, I am returning here to correct some information from May 05, 2022.
The experiences I had with pulseaudio were not good. On 7 computers that I tested, on 3 computers the sound worked perfectly with pulseaudio in the programs that the audio didn’t work, but it was only before restarting antiX, after restarting, antiX was silent, there was no sound, not even in the browser Firefox ESR web browser and not an MP3 video or audio file. On the other 4 computers the sound worked perfectly with pulseaudio in the programs that the audio didn’t work, so my experience was traumatic with pulseaudio and I don’t have confidence in this solution.

Is there any way to poll antiX-21 users, to find someone who successfully uses an external webcam for the Google Meet you say you need for conferencing with family? If so, you could ask which make & model of webcam they’re using. If it’s different, then you could test that alternate webcam. If it’s the same logitech as yours, then you could inquire for the details of their setup.

We could create several topics, where each topic reports the Hardware that works well with antiX, both for Webcam and for other Hardwares, such as: Bluetooth, Video Card, Sound Card, Ethernet or Wi-Fi Network Card, etc.

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Some devices or programs start working after pulseaudio is installed.

Namida12, eu estou retornando aqui para corrigir algumas a informações do dia 05 de maio de 2022.
As experiências que eu tive com o pulseaudio não foram boas. Em 7 computadores que testei, em 3 computadores o som funcionou perfeitamente com o pulseaudio nos programas que o áudio não funcionava, mas foi só até antes de reiniciar o antiX, depois da reinicialização, o antiX ficou mudo, não havia som, nem no navegador de internet Firefox ESR e nem em um arquivo de vídeo ou de áudio MP3. Nos outros 4 computadores o som funcionou perfeitamente com o pulseaudio nos programas que o áudio não funcionava, por tanto, a minha experiência foi traumática com o pulseaudio e eu não possuo confiança nesta solução.

Is there any way to poll antiX-21 users, to find someone who successfully uses an external webcam for the Google Meet you say you need for conferencing with family? If so, you could ask which make & model of webcam they’re using. If it’s different, then you could test that alternate webcam. If it’s the same logitech as yours, then you could inquire for the details of their setup.

Nós poderíamos criar vários tópicos, onde cada tópico relata o Hardware que fuciona bem com o antiX, tanto para Webcam quanto para outros Hardwares, como por exemplo: Bluetooth, Placa de Vídeo, Placa de Som, Placa de Rede Ethernet ou Wi-Fi, etc.

[Member namida12]

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pupulseaudio -D &
[2] 3892
[1] Exit 127 pulseaudio -D
green621@antix621:~

[Member namida12]

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$ pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
green621@antix621:~

antix621:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix621 Kernel: 5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.7 
           Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450M Pro4 serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends 
           v: P3.50 date: 07/18/2019 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           Speed: 2930 MHz min/max: 1400/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2930 2: 2949 3: 2932 4: 2939 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 70:85:c2:a3:6e:27 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 191.67 GiB (41.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 14.66 GiB used: 7.41 GiB (50.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
           ID-2: /home size: 434.06 GiB used: 184.26 GiB (42.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 2.8 MiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 197 Uptime: 5d 22h 50m Memory: 5.73 GiB used: 773.3 MiB (13.2%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06 

Was able to use Cheese to record a video with sound, but tried online with a friend right afterwards: opened meetup sent him an invite to meetup in google. He was able to open video but no sound from him nor was there any sound from me…

Should be able to install 19.4 in older computer tonight and try Cheese again, getting to be to late to attempt video chat tonight…

JR

• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by namida12.
• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by namida12.

[Member PPC]

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Hi

namida12 wrote:

pupulseaudio -D &
[2] 3892
[1] Exit 127 pulseaudio -D
green621@antix621:~

and

namida12 wrote:

$ pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
green621@antix621:~

…means:
– in the first case, that pulse audio (I assume that “pupulse audio -D &” was a typo and you entered the correct command “pulseaudio -D &”
The results you got mean that, for some reason, pulseaudio tries to get loaded and then exits.

What you should get, if pulseaudio works as it should is something like this:

 pulseaudio -D &
[1] 17514

-in the second case – “pulseaudio -k” is meant to kill the pulseaudio process. since it’s not running in the first place, antiX fails to kill it (there’s nothing to kill)

[Moderator caprea]

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Please post
dpkg -l *pulse*
and
ps -C pulseaudio
and
inxi -xxA

• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by caprea.

[Member namida12]

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green621@antix621:~
$ dpkg -l *pulse*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version            Architecture Description
+++-=============================-==================-============-=============>
ii  apulse:amd64                  0.1.13-1           amd64        PulseAudio em>
un  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio       <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
un  libao-pulse                   <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
un  libcanberra-pulse             <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 14.2-2.0nosystemd1 amd64        PulseAudio cl>
ii  libpulse0:amd64               14.2-2.0nosystemd1 amd64        PulseAudio cl>
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64             14.2-2.0nosystemd1 amd64        PulseAudio OS>
un  libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio    <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
un  libsox-fmt-pulse              <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
ii  pulseaudio                    14.2-2.0nosystemd1 amd64        PulseAudio so>
ii  pulseaudio-equalizer          14.2-2.0nosystemd1 amd64        Equalizer sin>
un  pulseaudio-esound-compat      <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
un  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth   <none>             <none>       (no descripti>
ii  pulseaudio-utils              14.2-2.0nosystemd1 amd64        Command line >
lines 1-19/19 (END)

green621@antix621:~
$ ps -C pulseaudio
  PID TTY          TIME CMD

$ inxi -xxA
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 
           Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 046d:082d 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
green621@antix621:~

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Important packages are installed, there’s no other audio server installed might interfering.
But obviously pulseaudio isn’t starting, no hint why.
Please

pulseaudio --start

[Member namida12]

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$ pulseaudio --start
green621@antix621:~
$ inxi -xxA
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
green621@antix621:~

[Member namida12]

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Amazing, all this trying to get Pulseaudio to work, has made the camera audio work as I expected its performance to be, it is the new camera…

Haven’t a clue why, but it appears that Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes

ALSA is finally running correctly without the microphone being muted. good news as I used it tonight. Hope it works again next week, or after a restart…

Cheese would not record sound, but it started to work after trying “pulseaudio -D &” in a terminal several times.
Then in meetup the the microphone icon turned blue it was no longer red, as it was found by the system, opened settings and camera was listed as the microphone…

Woot, woot, woot… I really wish I understood why it did not work, and what changed in my system to have it suddenly working again…

Will mark this thread solved, thank you to every one that assisted me with this unknown problem with the webcam…

JR

[Member namida12]

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moddit,

For some reason I can not modify original posting – to mark it solved…

JR

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namida 12, to make pulseaudio autostart with your system at bootup you have to change the autostart file of the desktop-session.
Go to
control-centre > session > User Desktop-Session

The startup file will open.Uncomment the pulseaudio lines.

## Uncomment if using pulseaudio (you need to install it). Make sure it starts before volumeicon.
pulseaudio -D &

EDIT: Do not be irritated by

Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.104-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 

It does not mean pulseaudio isn’t started.This should only show here how many and which sound servers are installed.

The most clear command to check if pulseaudio is running is
ps -C pulseaudio

If it looks like this
ps -C pulseaudio
PID TTY TIME CMD
2348 ? 00:00:01 pulseaudio

pulseaudio is started

if it looks like yours from above, only the letters, it isn’t started.

• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by caprea.

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