Dear Sebastian, you're definitely right. Indeed, I managed my quickcam express to work with cheese by enabling its v4l capabilities in hal.
By reading the bug reported at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531835 after plugging the webcam, I issued the following commands hal-set-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_870_noserial --key info.capabilities --strlist-pre video4linux sudo hal-set-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_870_noserial --key video4linux.device --string /dev/video0 That is, I manually added the v4l property to the device. Then, when you launch cheese, it recognizes and correctly uses the webcam. Unfortunately, these properties are set on-the-fly, and they're lost when I detach the camera. I'm not an expert with hal, so I don't know how to store this info permanently (i.e. I don't know anything about fdi files). So, someone may want to help me in creating the appropriate patch for fdi files, so that it can be attached to the already reported hal bug at freedesktop.org? Thank you all for the support. -- hal does not detect Quickcam Express as v4l-device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
