Bug#696727: cheese does not start with Gtk-Warning

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:13:34AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> How about unloading the kernel module then? I guess it's probably an
> UVC camera, so modprobe -r uvcvideo should do the trick for most
> cameras (as most of them are UVC).

Thanks for the tip. It is indeed uvcvideo, and unloading it means cheese draws its
UI ("No device found"). Interesting stuff. I'm going to try splicing some debug
statements into the code to see at what point it reaches and whether that helps
get any further.

FWIW some earlier verison of cheese worked with this webcam on this laptop.