I have the same warning on the commandline as the others above. When I launch cheese, I see only an empty white window and my resources climb until the process self aborts.
I hope someone solves this, as I am kind of committed to 12.04. Apparently 12.10 works fine... Thanks! -- 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/1001965 Title: Cheese works intermittently on LTS 12.04 Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Problem reproducable? Yes, just start cheese. It displays the program window. The part where the webcam should work is black. Sometimes it works, but there seems te be no pattern. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: cheese 3.4.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun May 20 16:36:26 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: cheese 3.4.1-0ubuntu2 cheese-common 3.4.1-0ubuntu2 SourcePackage: cheese UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 11/14/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: F.02 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 3629 dmi.board.vendor: Quanta dmi.board.version: 18.0B dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.02:bd11/14/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv6NotebookPC:pvrF.02:rvnQuanta:rn3629:rvr18.0B:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC dmi.product.version: F.02 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/1001965/+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