I can confirm this bug on Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04 - cheese starts, but doesn't show any picture from webcam :(
~ $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ~ $ lsusb |grep 0402 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. M5602 Video Camera Controller ~ $ dmesg |grep m5602 [ 30.139665] ALi m5602: Sensor reported 0x7660 [ 30.139670] ALi m5602: Detected a ov7660 sensor [ 30.268638] usbcore: registered new interface driver ALi m5602 ~ $ dmesg |grep gspca [ 29.961478] gspca: v2.13.0 registered ~ $ lsmod |grep gspca gspca_m5602 51493 0 gspca_main 27610 1 gspca_m5602 videodev 85626 1 gspca_main Sometimes cheese shows this error in terminal: libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: Input/output error ~ $ cheese (cheese:7182): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: Input/output error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55567 Title: m560x webcam doesn't work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/55567/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs