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Tuftec:
If I run cheese from the command line it reports that it can not find some sort of THROBBER annimation file or the backup animation file. It then fails with an illegal instruction fault.

If I try to run it again it gives dbus errors and fails with a segmentation fault.

Not pretty.

Sometimes the system locks up.

combo3:
Install gst-plugins-good.tcz and see if that solves the problem.

If not, try an online search with the exact error message in quotes and/or post it here.

On a side note, extension-specific problems get better response rates under "TCE Bugs" where the contributor is more likely to take notice of it. Plus it also makes things easier to find for someone else dealing with the same issue at a later date. Perhaps a moderator can split the cheese.tcz portion of this thread off to the correct section of the forum.

curaga:
I've always used mplayer to test webcams. mplayer tv://

Supports rather many formats, and tends to be more tested than some small webcam apps.


edit: Yeah, an illegal instruction would mean cheese (or one of its deps) was not compiled for a 486 (which the xcore is). Please open a thread about that in TCE bugs.

edit2: cheese pulls in a ton of deps, which may have caused you to run out of ram.

Tuftec:
So I will try gst-plugins-good  before trying anything else.

I will put up a post in the TCE area. I started here because I thought the issue was initially driver/kernel related.

In the short term I will uninstall cheese and wxcam which both are giving problems. wxcam actually crashes and locks up my system.

Cheers

Peter.

Tuftec:
Ok.
Went to load gst-plugins.
It is already installed.

I will now try mplayer to see if I get a different result.

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