@Christopher I have some questions for you , pleas help , thanks. And also please provide logs for each question ( the instructions are inline)
Q1. Does cheese video recording works if you use 3.2 kernel ? 1. Install 3.2 kernel 2. Boot with 3.2 kernel 3. Launch Cheese with the following command "cheese --gst-debug=5 --gst-debug-no-color 2> 3.2cheese_debug.log" 4. Start to Recording Please help to attache 3.2cheese_debug.log. I found some machines's cheese video recording works with 3.2 kernel and 3.5 kernel, but others does not work with 3.5 kernel , but works with 3.2 kernel. Q2: What are video resolution Cheese shows in preference ? Which is default. Q3: Does guvcview works well even you uses 3.5 kernel? Q4: What is your webcam? please attache the output of " lsusb -v " -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cheese in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1041432 Title: cheese and camorama freeze system when recording video Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in OEM Priority Project quantal series: New Status in OEM Priority Project r-series series: New Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Quantal 3.5.0-11 becomes totally unresponsive when starting a video from the built in webcam. Both mouse and keyboard are frozen. I tried both 32 and 64 bit versions of both cheese and camorama and the result was the same. This was not an issue with Precise. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: cheese 3.5.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Aug 24 21:57:00 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) SourcePackage: cheese UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-17 (8 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1041432/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
