Bug#479270: cheese: blank menus and buttons using uvc webcam

[Andres Cimmarusti]

Package: cheese
Version: 2.22.3-3
Followup-For: Bug #479270

I have a very similar problem. It started happening after the first 
major update of Lenny (5.0.1). On a fresh boot, cheese will fail to start my 
webcam (UVC - logitech quickcam pro for notebooks 046d:0991). If I close 
and open cheese again, it will display my webcam, but the menus and 
buttons appear blank. There is a 'Take a Photo' button that's easy to 
guess where it is, so if I click on the blank area where the button used 
to be, it works. It takes the pictures and suddenly the menus and 
buttons are back.

A very similar problem happens to me using skype. Everything works fine, 
except that when either the recipient of the call or myself activate 
the webcam, the buttons and menus in the call window dissapear. In the 
case of skype, they only re-appear when no webcam is in use.

I searched the logs for any helpful information and this is what I 
found:

uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26).

compat_ioctl32: VIDIOC_S_PARMioctl32(skype:3985): Unknown cmd fd(35) 
cmd(c0cc5616){t:'V';sz:204} arg(f5fe6dc0) on /dev/video0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.19-2         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2 GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5+lenny1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9          2.22.3-1.1+lenny1 Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2-9    2.22.3-1.1+lenny1 Utility library for evolution data
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-2         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.19-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.12-1~lenny1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2             2.22.2-2lenny1    SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxxf86vm1            1:1.0.2-1         X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

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