Comment 28 for bug 886449

Yeah I checked that file, that line was already in it by default. It is
just odd because it seems like everything was done right yet the mic
still doesn't seem to be working. You will see the meter on go up and
down for maybe about 10 seconds before completely freezing and dropping
out. I think it may have something to do with the hot plugging but I'm
not certain. I had an awfully hard time following those directions on
the site with the kinect link you gave and this is why I created the
default.conf in the first place. It just seemed easier yet unfortunately
didn't work out as I planned.

On 02/06/2012 12:57 PM, Yani Ioannou wrote:
> Sorry Johnny et. al., I should have mentioned I actually got it working
> and provided more information.
>
> Once you'd added an appropriate 4-channel input profile whatever way you
> want (I've removed the kinect specific profile and added a default one
> since there are plenty of 4-channel mics out there), the trick is you
> also need to edit the default.pa configuration to manually load the
> module for that source by adding a line like this to
> /etc/pulseaudio/default.pa
>
> load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
>
> This is obviously not a long term solution, and I'm not event sure why
> it's necessary, but once you do the playstation eye shows up as an input
> device in the gnome sound applet and you can record from it using
> pulseaudio.
>
> I've included a patch against the pulseaudio source code (I was using it
> to create a personalized pulseaudio debian package) that I believe
> provides a solution to the problem of 4-microphone input profiles in
> pulseaudio, removing the device-specific kinect profile (and udev
> config) adding a default profile.
>
> ** Patch added: "0617-Add-default-4-channel-mic-array-profile.patch"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/886449/+attachment/2720028/+files/0617-Add-default-4-channel-mic-array-profile.patch
>