Cheese crashing

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:41:16 Andreas Petzold wrote:
> Hi Anne,
> 
> Quoting Anne Wilson <cannewilson at 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
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