[Preliminarily solved] Cheese: "No camera found!"

[Detlef Lechner]

Patton Echols wrote:
> I don't have a great answer.  But I had a similar problem, when the 
> camera would hang, /dev/video0 would exist, but camera not found.  When 
> re-plugging the camera, I would then have both /dev/video0 and 
> /dev/video1 The latter would work.
>
> I never had time to finish tracking the problem, but I mention it in 
> case you have the same situation.  The extra info might give someone 
> other ideas.  If you have come across solutions, i am interest in hearing.
>   
I believe that my error message was caused by the fact that the program 
xawtv was running.
I found an almost identical solution as you:
i.) check in mc if /dev/video0 exists
ii.) check in mc if /dev/video1 exists.
iii.)  quit Cheese
iv.) unplug USB plug of camera
v.) re-plug USB plug of camera
vi.) restart Cheese

I believe that there is a programming error in Cheese.

Detlef