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pvsakith

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Registered: 2020-04-28

Posts: 18

Webcam not detected in cheese

Cheese says "Device not found" when opened. But the camera works fine in OBS studio and chrome.
Output of cheese

** Message: 18:14:09.576: cheese-application.vala:214: Error during camera setup: No device found


(cheese:3518): cheese-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.593: cheese_camera_device_get_name: assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed

(cheese:3518): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.593: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

(cheese:3518): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.593: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:3518): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.593: g_settings_schema_key_type_check: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:3518): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.593: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:3518): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.593: g_settings_set_value: key 'camera' in 'org.gnome.Cheese' expects type 's', but a GVariant of type '(null)' was given

(cheese:3518): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.594: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

** (cheese:3518): CRITICAL **: 18:14:09.594: cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion 'device != NULL' failed

Output of lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0edc:2038 HRY USB Camera
Bus 001 Device 004: ID c0f4:01b0 USB usb keyboard
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 10c4:8108 Silicon Labs USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Output of lsmod | grep video:

uvcvideo              118784  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      20480  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       20480  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_v4l2         36864  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_common       69632  4 videobuf2_vmalloc,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_memops
videodev              282624  3 videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common
mc                     65536  4 videodev,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,vide buf2_common
video                  57344  0

Output of ls -ltr /dev/video*:

crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Aug 25 18:03 /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 1 Aug 25 18:03 /dev/video1

I tried disabling pipewire and also tried running cheese as root, but none of it worked. And the user is also in  the video group