On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:41:16 Andreas Petzold wrote:
Hi Anne,
Quoting Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com:
When I launched cheese on the Acer Aspire One I saw what looked like the startup screen, but then it immediately crashed. I'm wondering whether it
is
a problem of missing driver or something else. Anyone have any hints?
I've never used cheese before and I don't own a AA1, so my feedback may not be too useful.
First, I didn't have my webcam plugged in and cheese started up just fine and after a couple of seconds it told me that I didn't have a camera. Then I tried a camera, for which I don't have a driver installed, with the same result as before. When I plugged in a working cam, cheese displayed a picture, but I seemed to be unable to take snapshots.
Judging from my rather limited experience, I don't think a missing driver should crash cheese. A broken driver will be another story, though.
Have you tried to use the cam with any other program, for instance kopete? I've been using luvcview with good results in the past
http://www.quickcamteam.net/software/linux/v4l2-software/luvcview
I hadn't actually tried it with anything else, but I fired up kopete, which instantly told me that I have an Acer Crystal Eye webcam, and produced a picture better than I expected considering the lighting condition.
Anne