Webcam in Ubuntu 8.10: Cheese

Discussion in 'Linux' started by arthurinparis, Dec 13, 2008.

  1. arthurinparis

    arthurinparis

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    Hey guys,

    I have just put a whole new installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on my AAO and everything worked except for Webcam.

    I've downloaded Cheese to try it out and saw a brown blank screen, with no view of myself...I decided then to add Camorama and everytime I launch it, I have to following error message:
    Could not connect to video device (dev/video0), check your connection

    From what I know it's gotta be a driver problem, but I have no clue how to solve it.

    A little help would be greatly appreciated, as I skimmed through the forum without finding any hints on how to solve this,

    Cheers,

    Arthur
     
    arthurinparis, Dec 13, 2008
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    riot

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    Not sure about the camorama thing but did you do the whole Option "Clone" "true" in xorg.conf from the wiki?
     
    riot, Dec 14, 2008
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    chris.h

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    I'm having the same problem here. I can get an image to show up in luvcview but not cheese for some reason?
     
    chris.h, Dec 14, 2008
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    arthurinparis

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    Exacty the same thing. Lucview works but no Cheese, nor the cam booth...
     
    arthurinparis, Dec 14, 2008
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    aspirational

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    I found this suggestion somewhere, probably on this forum I can't remember. I am using it with ubuntu 8.10 and have a decent picture and recordable sound from in-built mic, woo-hoo! Anyway here is a link http://guvcview.berlios.de/ but it is also in synaptic under GUVCview. I am still a noob at linux and have been playing around a lot with stuff, so if it doesn't work for you I won't be of much help in getting it working. It does work for me though and with skype too.
     
    aspirational, Dec 16, 2008
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    On Intrepid the webcam works out of the box using VLC
     
    lontano, Dec 19, 2008
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