cheeses and camorama not working with inspiron 1525 webcam

[manishmahabir]

cheese and camorama were working perfectly in hardy but the have stopped working in intrepid.

lsusb

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

ekiga can show the output of my webcam...even VLC can.

on opening cheese the light of webcam starts to glow...but the picture does not come.
it seems to be doing something because it does not quit easily. i have to force it to quit.h inspiron 1525 webcam
even opening it as root does not help.
i think cheese was working in live cd environment.

Camorama says "Could not connect to video device (/dv/video0) Please check connection".

[Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano)]

this happens to me too (i've an inspiron 1525 too)

[AYKUT ÖZDEMİR (aykutozdemir)]

this happens to me too with dell inspron 1525

[magicsoft (henokher)]

The same is happening for my dell inspiron 1525 laptop. It was working good before I enabled the advanced graphics option in (system->preferences->appearance).
Help Please.
Thanks

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

I can confirm this too.

I also noticed that if i open Cheese and press on the Effects button, and then press it again Cheese will crash. A backtrace is attached.

I am unable to identify the hardware through either lspci, lshw or lsusb. In syslog i can see the following:

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Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 12.876627] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 12.955507] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.125265] acpi device:31: registered as cooling_device2
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.125700] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:2e/input/input8
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.152042] ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.152225] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:33/input/input9
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.184037] ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.266915] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.348629] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.406460] input: Laptop Integrated Webcam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input10
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.406516] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.406536] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.418860] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.444356] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.03 (30-Apr-2008)
Nov 5 15:51:44 magnus-laptop kernel: [ 13.444975] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH8M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
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I opened xsane (without a scanner plugged in). The led next to the cam will flash, and xsane fails to start - it thinks my webcam is a scanner...

I guess we can blame uvcvideo (the driver) for our problems.