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electrocallejero
January 6th, 2009, 02:26 PM
Cannot get cheese to work! I have a pandolin performance from system 76. I installed cheese but when I click on record video the whole application goes dark and I have to force quit + I will not let me take a photo. Could this be a bug in the program or is it that it just cannot find the webcam?
electrocallejero
January 6th, 2009, 02:53 PM
Cannot get cheese to work! I have a pandolin performance from system 76. I installed cheese but when I click on record video the whole application goes dark and I have to force quit + I will not let me take a photo. Could this be a bug in the program or is it that it just cannot find the webcam?

here is how it looks on screen
quip
January 6th, 2009, 03:03 PM
It could be one of several things. The first thing to do is list what kind of webcam you have (built-in, external?) and what make/model (Logitech/Quickcam, etc.?).

Also, it is usually a good idea to start a misbehaving app from the command line (Terminal)--many apps will give some good debugging messages.

Last, do you have desktop effects (fancy compiz stuff) turned on? While debugging a graphical app, I would definitely turn it off if I had it on.
quip
January 6th, 2009, 03:13 PM
BTW, I just noticed your double-post (starting two different thread for the same question). I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it is usually considered bad form.

Try to delete the other one, if you can (it doesn't have any responses yet, anyway).
Hilko
January 22nd, 2009, 05:52 AM
Cannot get cheese to work! I have a pandolin performance from system 76. I installed cheese but when I click on record video the whole application goes dark and I have to force quit + I will not let me take a photo. Could this be a bug in the program or is it that it just cannot find the webcam?

Got the same problem. Cannot record video. If I click on take photo i see a countdown, then a flash and hear the sound of a camera. However no photo. The app just goes dark and I have to force quit.

The terminal gives no info:
:~$ cheese
Killed
electrocallejero
February 17th, 2009, 02:30 AM
This is the error I get when opening it from the command terminal.

(cheese:8407): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
libv4l2: error requesting 4 buffers: Device or resource busy


Not sure what it means?