Comment 127 for bug 290506

Cheese would not work for me several weeks ago (it would always hang at startup, without ever displaying an image), but today it functioned correctly. The resolution at first was extremely low, but I was able to increase it without any crash. Then I tried changing the effects and cheese stopped responding. Even if I kill the program and load it again, it hangs immediately.

Two questions:

1 - I'm fairly certain that cheese hangs at startup because it is trying to apply effects. But because it always hangs, I cannot tell it to stop trying. Is there any file I can edit to get around this?

2 - Has anyone else encountered this behavior, ie cheese working correctly so long as no effects are selected? What might be causing this and how can it be fixed?