[Bug 301498] Re: Doesn't work with acer orbcam

use_linux compu73rg33k at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 06:39:42 UTC 2008


** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: cheese
  
  Cheese does not work at all with my Acer Aspire 9300 (webcam called
- orbcam or something like that - it's the standard acer webcam). When I
- take a picture the LED by the webcam goes on but the Cheese window just
- stays gray the whole time. Moreover, the program freezes ~20-30 seconds
- later.
+ orbicam - it's the standard acer webcam). When I take a picture the LED
+ by the webcam goes on but the Cheese window just stays gray the whole
+ time. Moreover, the program freezes ~20-30 seconds later.
  
  Running the program from command line yields the following output when
  trying to take a picture:
  
  (cheese:8211): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
  
  (cheese:8211): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data:
  assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
  
  I'm running 8.10 x86_64
+ 
+ Trying to take a picture with when cheese is run as root gives the
+ following:
+ 
+ (cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which
+ are not a real subset of its template caps
+ 
+ (cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which
+ are not a real subset of its template caps
+ 
+ (cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad video_source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
+ libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error destination buffer too small
+ 
+ My lsusb says the following for the webcam
+ Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0100 Acer, Inc OrbiCam
+ 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
  Package: cheese 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: cheese
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

** Tags added: acer aspire cheese webcam

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: cheese
  
  Cheese does not work at all with my Acer Aspire 9300 (webcam called
  orbicam - it's the standard acer webcam). When I take a picture the LED
  by the webcam goes on but the Cheese window just stays gray the whole
  time. Moreover, the program freezes ~20-30 seconds later.
  
  Running the program from command line yields the following output when
  trying to take a picture:
  
  (cheese:8211): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
  
  (cheese:8211): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data:
  assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
  
  I'm running 8.10 x86_64
  
  Trying to take a picture with when cheese is run as root gives the
  following:
  
  (cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which
  are not a real subset of its template caps
  
  (cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which
  are not a real subset of its template caps
  
  (cheese:7126): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad video_source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
  libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error destination buffer too small
  
  My lsusb says the following for the webcam
  Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0100 Acer, Inc OrbiCam
  
+ dmesg shows the following information
+ [345358.705552] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
+ [345358.736575] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (5986:0100)
+ [345358.824457] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
+ [345362.549650] uvcvideo: device USB2.0 Camera requested null bandwidth, defaulting to lowest.
+ 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
  Package: cheese 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: cheese
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

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