Comment 106 for bug 290506

Stefan,

I had a similar problem with cheese and I was unable to record video although my webcam takes photos and also works with Skype flawlessly. So when I wrote to Filippo and Daniel Seigel (Cheese developers) they directed me to this bug report.

I installed the following packages: linux-image-2.6.27-8, kernel-image-2.6.27-8
and kernel-image-2.6.27-8-generic. When I boot up with the new kernel, I
immediately have a kernel panic. If you can tell me how I can save the output
on the screen anywhere I'll do that, but from what I see, the CAPS lock simply
blinks repeatedly and nothing works. Not even Ctrl-Alt-Del. I am forced to only
power off the system. It says something like "couldn't mount the file system". So I tried to install fs-core-modules-2.6.27-8-generic. This does not install complaining that it cannot overwrite the kernel object file and hence crashes. If I try to report the crash, crash reporter says that "It is not a genuine Ubuntu version"!!??

So the solution (kernel) proposed is not helping me. I guess this kernel package should not go into the
next version of the kernel - unless I made some mistake and I have to install some other packages.

What next? How do we fix the problem with cheese not recording properly?

I can attach, lspci -vvn, and any other log files you ask for. Please refer http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560983 to see the bug report of the problem with Cheese for further input on what is happening with gstreamer.