cheese doesn't detect internal Hp Pavilion webcam

[Antonino Arcidiaco]

Binary package hint: cheese

Cheese doesn't detect a, correctly installed, internal HP Pavilion Webcam.
This is lsusb output
[b] Bus 005 Device 003: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd [/b]
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c044 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" [WWW] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

Can you please report which ubuntu you are using and the version of cheese?

[Antonino Arcidiaco (totux)]

Sorry for my inexperience...
I read the documentation and I'll never make another mistake...
I'm using Cheese 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 in a Ubuntu 8.04.
This is the screen image when i start cheese

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I also attach a gconf-editor screen:
in apps>cheese the program find the corret directory of cam but it doesn't work...

Thak you

[Antonino Arcidiaco (totux)]

I've update cheese to 2.22.0-0ubuntu2, but it doesn't work

[Niclas Lockner (niclasl)]

I can confirm this and I think that it's important to fix this because the cam, and it's similar versions, is common on laptops from HP and Sony.
The driver supporting this cam (and it's relatives) is the Ricoh r5u870 and can be found at http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870

I'm using cheese version:
2.22.1-0ubuntu1

I have this cam:
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd

When I start cheese from the terminal I get no output at all except when I run it in debug-level 3.
The webcam is properly installed and is detected and working in aMSN.

[Antonino Arcidiaco (totux)]

Are there updates?
Anyone tested the 2.23.1 cheese version?

Thanks

[Antonino Arcidiaco (totux)]

with the 0.2.4-0 cheese version the webcam work nice...

[Niclas Lockner (niclasl)]

Here is the link to the upstream bugreport:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531835

It seems that it's not a bug in cheese, but in the r5u870 driver. According to the current developer of the driver, the webcam is not setup for HAL, and since cheese uses HAL to find webcams, it cannot find one.

Quote from Comment #10 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531835):

"Figured I might as well reply directly to the bug and CC myself. :)

Yes, from the looks of it, it's just because the webcam is not setup as HAL
device. Basically, you'll need to modify the FDI files shipped with your
distribution (which come from upstream) and add the USB device to the correct
.fdi file (probably /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-xxxx.fdi).
Then you can send a diff to the hal-info guys, and your device should be
shipped in the next release. I'll probably do this at some later stage (since I
have all the device IDs and such), but haven't really had much time, and wasn't
even aware this was necessary until now.

If you'd like to volunteer - it's reasonably simple, I just haven't had time
lately - head up an email to the r5u870-list mailing list (sign up @
http://lists.mediati.org/).

*Technically*, this bug is NOTGNOME. However, it might be worth looking into
providing users with the option of forcibly enabling the use of the webcam even
if it wasn't detected via HAL; so I'm leaving the bug open for now. It might be
worth opening a new bug for a feature request for something similar."

It sounds that it's something that will be fixed in a future release or the driver.

[Niclas Lockner (niclasl)]

It's a bug in the r5u870 driver