Recently I got problem with Cheese, but not with Ekiga and gstreamer-properties. Then I re-compile uvcvideo by the help from this: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers And my Cheese works now. Hopefully it helps.
Recently I got problem with Cheese, but not with Ekiga and gstreamer- properties. Then I re-compile uvcvideo by the help from this: http:// www.linuxtv. org/wiki/ index.php/ How_to_ Obtain, _Build_ and_Install_ V4L-DVB_ Device_ Drivers
And my Cheese works now. Hopefully it helps.