opensuse 11.3 with LXDE: cheese does not show webcam image

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#1

I’m using opensuse 11.3 with LXDE.
Cheese does not show the webcam stream.
I do have the required gstreamer installed.
I am successful in seeing the webcam video stream when using ‘luvcview’.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

$ rpm -qa |grep -i cheese
libcheese-gtk18-2.30.1-2.1.1.i586
cheese-2.30.1-2.1.1.i586

$ rpm -qa |grep -i gstreamer
gstreamer-0_10-libnice-0.0.11-1.25.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs-0.10.29-1.9.i586
python-gstreamer-0_10-0.10.18-1.14.i586
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-2-106.2.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.14-3.2.i586
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.29-1.7.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.22-1.16.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-hal-0.10.22-1.16.i586
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.29-1.7.i586
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.6.3-5.4.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.18-6.2.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.29-1.9.i586

#2

Could it be, you need libgstbasevideo ?

Does cheese give any output when started from a terminal window?

#3

yes, I do have libgstbsaevideo installed on my system.
When I ran cheese in a console, there were no error messages.
When cheese started up it has an error message, “No device found”.

$ rpm -qa | grep -i gst
libgstapp-0_10-0-0.10.29-1.9.i586
gstreamer-0_10-libnice-0.0.11-1.25.i586
libgstbasevideo-0_10-0-0.10.19-999.pm.1002.1.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs-0.10.29-1.9.i586
python-gstreamer-0_10-0.10.18-1.14.i586
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-2-106.2.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.14-3.2.i586
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.29-1.7.i586
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.29-1.9.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.22-1.16.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-hal-0.10.22-1.16.i586
libgstsignalprocessor-0_10-0-0.10.19-999.pm.1002.1.i586
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.29-1.7.i586
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.6.3-5.4.i586
libgstphotography-0_10-0-0.10.19-999.pm.1002.1.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.18-6.2.i586
libgstfarsight-0_10-0-0.0.17-4.2.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.29-1.9.i586