Ubuntu
cheese package

Cheese can't access my webcam.

Bug #298456 reported by Stapel on 2008-11-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #290506: cheese malfunctioning with UVCVIDEO webcams (was cheese doesn't show v4l2 video output and disables output on gstreamer-based apps ran afterwards). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cheese (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Binary package hint: cheese

My webcam works with Skype though.

xapel@dell-desktop:~$ lsusb | grep Logitech
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:09a4 Logitech, Inc.

It also use to work in Ubuntu 8.04.

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Stapel (wstapelberg) wrote on 2008-12-16:

I can get cheese to work now, but only if I change the resolution to the lowest setting.

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Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote on 2008-12-17:

I'm marking this as a dupe from bug #290506 as this camera uses the uvcvideo module.

You can find the solution at that bug report,

Thanks a lot for your report and support.

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