Bug#696727: ~ Re: Bug#696727: cheese does not start with Gtk-Warning

Thu Mar 28 10:13:34 UTC 2013

On 03/28/2013 09:55 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2013, at 23:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> could anyone who is seeing the issue with Cheese freezing try to disconnect their webcam
>
> In my case I don't think so- it's built into the frame of my laptop screen.

How about unloading the kernel module then? I guess it's probably an UVC 
camera, so modprobe -r uvcvideo should do the trick for most cameras (as 
most of them are UVC).

Adrian
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