The problem in cheese is that the preview display is black. It does snap
from the webcam but the preview screen remains black. But, if I run
cheese with X11 redirection to another server, then the preview display
on it is not black. That's how it relates to cheese.
I don't know anything about the details, but I would agree that this
probably comes up due to some kind of library mismatch in X or how
cheese (and other programs) use X. Tonight I will test Anne Bezemer's
solution (that I got via direct email), which is to use
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 rather than the default, and hopefully get it
working in that way.
Whichever: this clearly is a bug in Debian 6.0 (on that machine). Last
week I had Linux Mint 12 on the same machine, and not this problem;
it operated the display without workarounds.
It probably is not local to cheese, but cheese is a good and easy way of
triggering it. Hopefully this bug can remain open, though filed in the
right bucket, at least until I have my workaround. And then someone with
deeper insight might make something useful of it.
regards,
Ralph.
On 11/01/13 11:50, Michael Biebl wrote:
On 10.01.2013 19:15, Holger Levsen wrote:
reopen 697854
reassign 697854 cheese
thanks
# dear cheese maintainers,
# below is some context, please read the full bug log for full context ;)
Hi Ralph,
On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
Well, as far as I can see it's a problem with the X server software
rather than anything else, or the particular collection of packages I
got on that installation. It happens with both cheese and skype, which
are the things I've tried, while guvcview fails to run completely, with
the note "Fatal:g_thread NOT supported' (a different problem).
Perhaps you would you be able to direct me to a better place to lodge
this, if this is the wrong place?
as this bug also occurs with cheese, I've reopened and reassigned it there.
Thanks for your help in tracking this error down!
Why should a problem in skype be a symptom for a cheese problem? We
rather re-assign that to general or close it again. The bug report is
not really useful as is.
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