That is, I manually added the v4l property to the device. Then, when you launch cheese, it recognizes and correctly uses the webcam.
Unfortunately, these properties are set on-the-fly, and they're lost when I detach the camera. I'm not an expert with hal, so I don't know
how to store this info permanently (i.e. I don't know anything about fdi files).
So, someone may want to help me in creating the appropriate patch for fdi files, so that it can be attached to the already reported hal bug at
freedesktop.org?
Dear Sebastian,
you're definitely right. Indeed, I managed my quickcam express to work with cheese by enabling its v4l capabilities in hal.
By reading the bug reported at bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 531835
http://
after plugging the webcam, I issued the following commands
hal-set-property --udi /org/freedeskto p/Hal/devices/ usb_device_ 46d_870_ noserial --key info.capabilities --strlist-pre video4linux p/Hal/devices/ usb_device_ 46d_870_ noserial --key video4linux.device --string /dev/video0
sudo hal-set-property --udi /org/freedeskto
That is, I manually added the v4l property to the device. Then, when you launch cheese, it recognizes and correctly uses the webcam.
Unfortunately, these properties are set on-the-fly, and they're lost when I detach the camera. I'm not an expert with hal, so I don't know
how to store this info permanently (i.e. I don't know anything about fdi files).
So, someone may want to help me in creating the appropriate patch for fdi files, so that it can be attached to the already reported hal bug at
freedesktop.org?
Thank you all for the support.