Cheese can't find ucw cam

[uggla]

Hi!

Cheese won't find my Logitec cam. It works with cheese on every other distro and it works with xwcam and mplayer on TC. What can I do?

[Arslan S.]

cheese uses gstreamer to access camera, the problem i don't understand is gstreamer can access camera but cheese can not.

test to verify your camera working

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tce-load -i cheese
gstreamer-properties
click on video tab -> default input -> choose driver v4l2 -> click on test

[uggla]

cheese.tcz and gstreamer.tcz is installed but there is no gstreamer-properties. Is it located in some other extension?

[uggla]

I found it. It's in gnome-media.tcz. Should it be a dependency for cheese?

[uggla]

cheese uses gstreamer to access camera, the problem i don't understand is gstreamer can access camera but cheese can not.

test to verify your camera working

Code: [Select]

tce-load -i cheese
gstreamer-properties
click on video tab -> default input -> choose driver v4l2 -> click on test

The test succeeds (cam working). But still nothing in cheese.

[Arslan S.]

cheese uses gstreamer to access camera, the problem i don't understand is gstreamer can access camera but cheese can not.

test to verify your camera working

Code: [Select]

tce-load -i cheese
gstreamer-properties
click on video tab -> default input -> choose driver v4l2 -> click on test

The test succeeds (cam working). But still nothing in cheese.

yeah cheese is not working, i will downgrade it to a working version

[uggla]

Tried the new version and...

1. Found a missing dependency, krb5.tcz.
2. It still doesn't work with my cam. 

[Arslan S.]

Tried the new version and...

1. Found a missing dependency, krb5.tcz.
2. It still doesn't work with my cam. 

submitted hotfix update

[uggla]

Cheese still can't find my cam.

When starting from prompt I get:

tc@box:~$ cheese

** (cheese:9288): WARNING **: Throbber animation not found

** (cheese:9288): WARNING **: Throbber fallback animation not found either

** (cheese:9288): WARNING **: libhal_ctx_set_dbus_connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

[Arslan S.]

install script should start dbus and hal daemons if they are not running weird, but try this

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sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus restart
sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/haldaemon restart

[uggla]

Now Cheese won't start and I get:

tc@box:~$ sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus restart
stopped /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon (pid 8829)
rm: can't remove '/var/run/dbus/pid': No such file or directory

tc@box:~$ sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/haldaemon restart
HAL daemon is already stopped
HAL daemon is started

tc@box:~$ cheese

** (cheese:9730): WARNING **: Unable to connect to dbus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-WMLEwO7MPo: Connection refused

** (cheese:9730): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

** (cheese:9730): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

** (cheese:9730): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Segmentation fault

[Arslan S.]

check if dbus and haldaemon is running

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ps aux | grep dbus
ps aux | grep hald

[uggla]

tc@box:~$ ps aux | grep dbus
 4203 tc       grep dbus
tc@box:~$ ps aux | grep hald
 4205 tc       grep hald

[tinypoodle]

Those are just the grep processes per se.

[uggla]

After manually starting dbus and hald via SystemTools>Services, cheese finds the cam but all I get is another error:

tc@box:~$ cheese

** (cheese:9044): WARNING **: Throbber animation not found

** (cheese:9044): WARNING **: Throbber fallback animation not found either
libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy