Doesn't work with acer orbcam

[use_linux]

Binary package hint: cheese

Cheese does not work at all with my Acer Aspire 9300 (webcam called orbicam - it's the standard acer webcam). When I take a picture the LED by the webcam goes on but the Cheese window just stays gray the whole time. Moreover, the program freezes ~20-30 seconds later.

Running the program from command line yields the following output when trying to take a picture:

(cheese:8211): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(cheese:8211): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

I'm running 8.10 x86_64

Trying to take a picture with when cheese is run as root gives the following:

(cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps

(cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps

(cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad video_source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error destination buffer too small

My lsusb says the following for the webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0100 Acer, Inc OrbiCam

dmesg shows the following information
[345358.705552] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[345358.736575] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (5986:0100)
[345358.824457] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[345362.549650] uvcvideo: device USB2.0 Camera requested null bandwidth, defaulting to lowest.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: cheese 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: cheese
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

I'm marking this bus as dupe from bug #298903.

Thanks for your report, if you can help us gathering the logs asked there would be great.

Thanks