On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 11:44 -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Folks: > > I bought a Logitech C270 webcam, which is supposed to work in Linux. > It > does, EXCEPT the microphone isn't picking up sound. I've checked in > alsamixer, and the microphone device can be selected. But under > cheese > or other software, it still does not capture. Yes, I've googled this, > but it's Linux, so there are few answers and none of them work for > me. > > Any help? > > Paul
Probably, as I still am having such a camera around somewhere. I remember having used it and -vaguely- that I had problems to keep it from registering as primary audio device. So there should be a way. Some details would be nice to know: -what does 'lsmod|grep audio' return -what is the output of 'cat /proc/asound/cards' -what does 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' say when you plug in the camera (try hotplugging it while 'tail -f[...]' is running) -is the camera connected to a USB-2 or a USB-3 port? I remember the C270 causing trouble with some USB-3 ports.
