LifeCam VX-1000 microphone not working

[Claudiu Bulcu]

It doesn't work with Skype, and Empathy so far.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: clau 4648 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c: clau 4648 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: clau 4648 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: clau 4648 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc100000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101'
   Controls : 43
   Simple ctrls : 24
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'camera'/'USB camera at usb-0000:00:1a.2-2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB045e:00f7'
   Controls : 3
   Simple ctrls : 2
CheckboxCommand: alsa_record_playback
CheckboxData: LifeCam VX-1000 microphone not working
CheckboxDescription:
 Open the volume control application by right-clicking on the speaker icon in the panel and selecting "Sound Preferences". Select the "Input" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). Select the "Output" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). When you are done, click the Test button, then speak into the microphone. After a few seconds, your speech will be played back to you.

 Did you hear your speech played back?
CheckboxTest: alsa_record_playback_alternates
Date: Fri Oct 30 20:46:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

Hi Claudiu,

Please, if you are still having issues, test with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p alsa-base 465319

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds .

Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

Please let us know your results.

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[Sebastian Schepens (sebas-schep)]

I am affected by this bug, video is working correctly, sound from integrated micrphone is not working, i will try with daily kernel and report back

[Sebastian Schepens (sebas-schep)]

oh, by the way, i'm using lucid

[Sebastian Schepens (sebas-schep)]

Now using 2.6.34 kernel and bug persists, what i realized is that after booting my pc, pulseaudio gets sound from the microphone and measures it's volume, but when i open a recording program pulseaudio stops receiving sound.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for alsa-driver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]