Webcams plugged or unplugged after cheese startup not recognised

[Márton Németh]

Binary package hint: cheese

When starting Cheese 2.29.5 the webcams currently plugged in are detected. If a new USB webcam is plugged or any webcam is unplugged this change is not recognised by Cheese.

When the active webcam is unplugged there could be a message that the webcam is no longer available.
When the Edit/Preferences window is opened the camera detection could be run to reflect the current state of the plugged and unplugged webcams the same like when the application is starting.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 17 08:23:09 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: cheese 2.29.5-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: cheese
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686

[Márton Németh (nm127-freemail)]

The bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603612 at GNOME Bugzilla may be related to this one.

[Vish (vish)]

Thanks for finding the upstream bug.

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

I guess this is the same... if I have the built-in webcam on my laptop switched off when starting cheese, it will only report an error and have no way to find it after I've turned it on. If it is possible to detect that a camera has appeared, then it would be nice to not have to restart. :)

Thanks!

[Márton Németh (nm127-freemail)]

You can verify whether an USB device is pulgged or not by running e.g. the "lsusb" ( http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsusb8.html ) from an xterm or the "usbview" ( http://www.kroah.com/linux-usb/ ) program.