webcam works on one of two Lucid systems

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-07-19, NoOp wrote:

> On 07/18/2010 01:41 PM, Adam Funk wrote:

[webcam works on mplayer but not cheese or skype]


>> Using gstreamer-properties, I find the problem is that Xv isn't
>> working on the second machine; I also noticed that my
>> ~/.mplayer/config on the second machine includes the line "vo=x11".
>> 
>> 
>> I found this thread, which suggest installing NVIDIA drivers.
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1492744
>> 
>> However, Ubuntu has never tried to install them, and lshw indicates
>> the hardware as "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated
>> Graphics Controller".
>
> You have a "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated
> Graphics Controller" - that is an Intel chipset and has nothing to do
> with nvidia.

(That's what I thought.)

> Please provide the graphics sections from:
>
> $ sudo lspci -v

See below.  Thanks for looking into this!


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c504
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at d8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at d8200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c504
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at d8180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2