Comment 23 for bug 310760

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Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands) wrote : Re: [Bug 310760] Re: Built-in microphone on Lenovo USB webcam doesn't work when hald is running

Martin Pitt wrote:
> - sudo /etc/init.d/hal start
> - log out of GNOME session, ctrl-alt-f1, log into terminal
> - killall -15 -1 # this will kill *all* your running applications
> - sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> - arecord ...

It fail with the same error. Then I unplugged and replugged the camera,
and it still failed. I stopped hald, tried arecord and it failed again.
 Then I unplugged and replugged the camera, and then arecord worked fine.