Bugzilla – Bug 469181
webcam not recognized by software
Last modified: 2009-07-21 00:01:09 UTC
Created attachment 267453 [details] The 'gstreamer-properties' test fails User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081213 SUSE/1.1.14-3.4 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 First some details. # lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4036 Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live!/Live! Pro Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Trouble is that 'gstreamer-properties' comes out incorrect. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run gstreamer-properties 2. choose video {tab} 3. click test. Actual Results: Fuzzy frame no picture Expected Results: See a picture at least
Created attachment 267455 [details] Appliclication 'Cheese' screen test fails too. cheese-2.24.1-1.28.x86_64.rpm
Created attachment 267456 [details] hwinfo content
Created attachment 267498 [details] lsusb -v content
Created attachment 267845 [details] I tried camorama. The test failed - "Unable to capture image" I tried camorama. camorama test failed - "Unable to capture image" The image has a strip across the top, the rest of it shows black. camorama test failed - "Unable to capture image" # rpm -qa | grep -i camorama camorama-0.19-0.pm.2
Cheese is maintained by gnome maintainers.
it doesn't seem a gnome bug, assign to kernel. Looks like your webcam isn't supported.
Duplicate of "fix applications to use libv4l (gspca webcams stopped working!)" Users affected by this bug in 11.1 are encouraged to install libv4l and either run their applications like this: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so kopete LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype # 32-bit applications Slightly less recommended is to add the following to /etc/ld.so.preload: /usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 501959 ***