Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-08 Thread pmgazz
On 05/11/10 21:33, Simon Greenwood wrote: There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect what is visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg but its name escapes me at the moment. Have a search for 'hardware' in Software Centre. Try lspci for pci devi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-07 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:44 +, Tony Pursell wrote: > Can you try with a live CD or USB? If the webcam is still not found, > then I think you will pretty well have proved a hardware fault. I tried a live CD and the fault was still there. I also tried gstreamer-properties as was suggested. Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread azmodie
> -Original Message- > From: Barry Drake > Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:54:13 > To: UK Ubuntu Talk > Reply-To: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk > > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook > > On Fri, 2010-11-0

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread bodsda
tu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:54:13 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:44 +, Tony Pursell wrote: > Can you try with a live CD or USB? If the webcam is still n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:44 +, Tony Pursell wrote: > Can you try with a live CD or USB? If the webcam is still not found, > then I think you will pretty well have proved a hardware fault. Yes, I'll try that. I think I can find a USB version of the netbook remix live CD - I must have one some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread Tony Pursell
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:39 +, Barry Drake wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 21:33 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect > > what is visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg > > but its name escapes me at the momen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 21:33 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: > There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect > what is visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg > but its name escapes me at the moment. Have a search for 'hardware' in > Software Centre. Thanks.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread Simon Greenwood
There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect what is visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg but its name escapes me at the moment. Have a search for 'hardware' in Software Centre. s/ On 5 Nov 2010 20:59, "Barry Drake" wrote: Hi there Cheese is

[ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Cheese is an app I never use except to give it a test. The other day I was showing my Dell Mini 10v to a friend, and Cheese said that it couldn't find the camera (built into the netbook). I re-installed Cheese, and also gstreamer. I then rebooted and still Cheese says 'no device f