Bug#574016: cheese reports "no camera found!"; camera works w/ other programs

[Steve MacDonald]

Package: cheese
Version: 2.28.1-1
Severity: important

Cheese reports an error, "No camera found!".  My camera is installed,
it works with other programs, including the gstreamer-properties camera test.

Output of cheese --verbose:

Cheese 2.28.1 
Probing devices with HAL...
Probing supported video formats...

the Edit->preferences window does not have any devices listed under "webcam".

The camera in question is 
Ricoh Co. ( ID 05ca:183b ) 1.3 Mega pixel VCC8

kernel module: r5u870
from http://www.palmix.org/r5u870-en.html

-Steve

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base    0.10.25-1  GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good    0.10.16-3  GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-x               0.10.25-1  GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.8-2    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9                 2.28.2-1   Client library for evolution addre
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.2-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11         2.28.0-1   Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.25-1  GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.25-2  Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.2-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                       0.5.13-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.26.0-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2                    2.26.0-1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG

Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-3    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

cheese suggests no packages.

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