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Bug 552998 - Cheese shows test pattern with r5u870 driver
Cheese shows test pattern with r5u870 driver
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531835
Product: cheese
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal major
: 2.24
Assigned To: Cheese Maintainer(s)
Cheese Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-20 12:57 UTC by Michael Doube
Modified: 2008-09-20 13:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Michael Doube 2008-09-20 12:57:37 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Cheese shows a test pattern only when used on a Sony Vaio SZ650, which uses the r5u870 driver for webcam support.  The driver appears to be OK; the webcam works with Skype and when running:
]$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink




Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Ubuntu Hardy on a Vaio
2. Install r5u870 driver
3. Open cheese


Actual results:
Cheese opens, but displays a test pattern and the webcam's LED indicator does not come on

Expected results:
The LED indicator would come on and cheese would show images captured form the webcam

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Comment 1 Filippo Argiolas 2008-09-20 13:42:00 UTC 
It is a known bug of the r5u870 driver. It doesn't correctly works with hal so cheese cannot detect your device. It's been already reported to their developer, take a look at http://bugs.mediati.org/r5u870/issue17


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 531835 ***