[sf-lug] Cheese has no webcam

Yong Tang tomcatcantalk at outlook.com
Sat Mar 5 06:52:31 PST 2022


Thank you, Ken. Guvcview works perfectly. I will use it as default 
camera. Still wondering "who moved my cheese" though   I tried opening 
cheese with sudo. It works! I will dig further to see whether I can find 
something more interesting.


On 3/4/22 08:22, Ken Shaffer wrote:
> Try guvcview, it's pretty similar and can work with cameras cheese doesn't.
>
>
> On 3/3/22, Yong Tang <tomcatcantalk at outlook.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I run Xubuntu on an iMac. I found Cheese, the default webcam application,
>> could not find the internal camera. This issue is new to me. The error
>> message is "No device found". I removed and reinstalled the app, it did not
>> help. My other apps such as VirtualBox, Teams and Zoom have no problem to
>> pick up the webcam. Any suggestions for the direction I can take to
>> investigate this problem?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Yong
>>
>>
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