Bug 1394246 - Cheese doesn't detect webcam
Summary: Cheese doesn't detect webcam
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cheese
Version: 25
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-11 13:23 UTC by Axel Matías
Modified: 2016-11-23 10:17 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-11-23 10:17:35 UTC
Type: Bug

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Description Axel Matías 2016-11-11 13:23:27 UTC 
Description of problem:

Cheese app won't detect any device even though the laptop has an integrated webcam. Google chrome and other browsers are able to detect and use the webcam properly. It also used to work in previous versions (Fedora 24 i.e.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.22.1

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Cheese app
2. See it doesn't detect any device

Actual results:
The app doesn't recognize webcam hardware

Expected results:
It should recognize the webcam

Additional info:
Comment 1 Axel Matías 2016-11-14 17:38:34 UTC 
no answers? :(
Comment 2 Axel Matías 2016-11-15 09:38:48 UTC 
My computer is an Asus Zenbook UX303lb (Intel core i5 broadwell with nvidia GT 940M card)
Comment 3 Axel Matías 2016-11-23 10:10:05 UTC 
I just did a fresh insall and it got solved :)
Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2016-11-23 10:17:35 UTC 
(In reply to Axel Matías from comment #3)
> I just did a fresh insall and it got solved :)

Great, thank you for reporting back, closing this then.
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