Cheese does not use built-in webcam
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cheese (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
In Ubuntu 17.10 beta, Cheese does not provide an image from the camera nor does it offer to attach to it in the prefs settings.
Machine: Macbook Pro Retina 13" with a Facetime HD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe camera.
Hardware works under macOS -> Seems software or driver issue.
On a similar Macbook the image comes up immediately (with a Facetime HD camera attached to USB)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: cheese 3.25.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Sep 7 20:12:57 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-05 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170902)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro12,1
RelatedPackageV
cheese 3.25.90-0ubuntu1
cheese-common 3.25.90-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: cheese
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP121.
dmi.board.name: Mac-E43C1C25D48
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro12,1
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc
dmi.product.family: MacBook Pro
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro12,1
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
This is due to missing facetimehd driver.
I built one according to https:/ /github. com/patjak/ bcwc_pcie/ wiki/Get- Started
and it works.
However, the image lacks the green channel (thus it is magenta).
Taking pictures works fine (all color channels are captured)