Comment 0 for bug 301498

Binary package hint: cheese

Cheese does not work at all with my Acer Aspire 9300 (webcam called orbcam or something like that - 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

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