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  1. Bug #287564
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 287564

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Michele Costantino Soccio (michelinux) wrote : Re: [Bug 287564] Re: cheese does not display webcam picture

That's exactly what I experience.
legodude, could you please try to launch gstreamer-properties and check whether the video input is working with it?

Il giorno gio, 30/10/2008 alle 02.17 +0000, legodude ha scritto:

> I have what I consider a similar problem with Cheese.
>
> I have a Thinkpad X200 with integrated camera:
> [ 7.954991] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> [ 8.004421] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (17ef:480c)
> [ 8.005240] input: UVC Camera (17ef:480c) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb4/4-6/4-6:1.0/input/input7
> [ 8.005267] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
> [ 8.005269] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
>
> With 8.10 Beta, Cheese worked perfectly with my system.
> I have since upgraded to 8.10 RC and Cheese will now load, turn on the
> video light, but not display any picture. In preferences it seems to
> detect the camera fine, and even lists the supported resolutions.
> Running "cheese -v" does not display any output.
>
> When closing Cheese, it crashes and has to be force-halted.
>