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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090603/1f8df222/attachment.bin
