If this helps, I have similar behavior. Ekiga shows the video, but EasyCam throws an error - "no camera found" and merely launching Cheese causes a complete freeze of gnome. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04. Gnome 2.22.3.
dmesg [ 1127.760832] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [ 1127.996743] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 1128.394601] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 1128.444695] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Slim 1322 AF (0458:704d) [ 1128.448748] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 1128.448760] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0) -- Genius Webcam Not Recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132701 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs