[alsa-devel] DELL SP2309W Monitor with Integrated microphone

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Phil Gorbett <pgorbett at usc.edu.au> wrote:
> Any luck anyone with this one yet?  I too have the same issue as that
> posted previously (last month), and get the same results with the
> indicative testing.  I have tried several fixes via googling - module
> loading and sound "card" indexing via alsa.base modprobe file and LOTS
> of others.  Still no luck.  I am running FC10 with pulse, but think it's
> probably a snd-usb-audio problem as the driver appears to be correctly
> loading and the webcam is clearly indicated in the sound prefs app and
> gconf/gstreamer.

Try disabling pulse and run:

arecord -v -f cd -D plughw:0 file.wav

Does file.wav contain any audio?  What does arecord output?

Lee