Cheese not working on my Macbook Air 7,2

[JuicyJammy]

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, and when I installed this module, the camera worked.
But Cheese would freeze, and it'll display things that's not moving.
When I run cheese from command line, it says something about a "timestrap problem".
Can anyone help?

[zoof]

I've observed the same with both Cheese and Zoom. Was not a problem with Debian Bullseye on an Air 6,2. The following is the output from running Cheese from the command line.

$ cheese

(cheese:5986): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 08:28:51.760: gdk_wayland_window_set_dbus_properties_libgtk_only: assertion 'GDK_IS_WAYLAND_WINDOW (window)' failed

(cheese:5986): cheese-WARNING **: 08:28:56.487: A lot of buffers are being dropped.: ../libs/gst/base/gstbasesink.c(3143): gst_base_sink_is_too_late (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstViewfinderBin:vf-bin/ClutterGstVideoSink:cluttergstvideosink0:
There may be a timestamping problem, or this computer is too slow.


(cheese:5986): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 08:29:09.107: Unable to create dummy onscreen: No foreign surface, and wl_shell unsupported by the compositor

[pasan93]

@JuicyJammy Were you able to fix it? I couldn't even install the driver on Pop!_OS 22.04. 😞

[zoof]

@JuicyJammy Were you able to fix it? I couldn't even install the driver on Pop!_OS 22.04. disappointed

I am also on Pop!_OS 22.04 and had no problems building the driver on the current 5.17 kernel. But I get the same image freeze that @JuicyJammy is getting.

[pasan93]

@JuicyJammy Were you able to fix it? I couldn't even install the driver on Pop!_OS 22.04. disappointed

I am also on Pop!_OS 22.04 and had no problems building the driver on the current 5.17 kernel. But I get the same image freeze that @JuicyJammy is getting.

I tried the driver even by distro hopping from Pop!_OS to Ubuntu and Fedora.
Still no luck.

[satmandu]

Looks like this is a cheese issue upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/126 (That matches some of the issues, but I don't have the choppy video. Cheese just freezes for me.)

This may work fine for you: GST_V4L2_USE_LIBV4L2=1 gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! xvimagesink (It works fine for me.)

[zoof]

@satmandu as I noted, video on Zoom doesn't work properly either (with Pop!_OS) so it's not obvious that it is purely a Cheese issue. I also tried to get video to work with Arch, using the LTS kernel (5.15?) and Debian testing (Bookworm) but no luck (have not tried Zoom with these options). I am back to Debian stable where I know everything works.

[zoof]

I installed the backported kernel and headers for Bullseye (v 5.18) and Cheese works so as suggested by @satmandu, it seems like it is a problem with some dependency upstream of both Cheese and Zoom.

[jmsunseri]

FWIW I'm on Fedora with kernel 6.1.18-200.fc37.x86_64. Zoom works perfectly but Cheese still has the same issue

[amunizp]

hoping to add a bit more info here with Apple Inc. MacBookAir7,2 (apple description: MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017)) using ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

I installed (see notes below on how I installed) and confirm the following:

Cheese image shows but freezes and then crashes.
Kamoso Seems to do picture with wrong colours (i get purple and green with vertical lines) and video does not work.
guvcview Seems to work fine but commandline outputs loads of warnings that it seems to ignore.
googlemeet via Chrome Version 118.0.5993.88 (Official Build) (64-bit) ** Seems to work fine.
googlemeet via firefox 118.0.2 (64-bit) snap for ubuntu Seems to work fine.
** zoom on browsers (as above) seems to work fine.
** @satmandu** what was said here: #268 (comment) seems to work fine with me as well.

$ cheese

(cheese:2292): Gdk-WARNING **: 15:05:01.822: Native Windows taller than 65535 pixels are not supported

(cheese:2292): cheese-WARNING **: 15:05:06.497: A lot of buffers are being dropped.: ../libs/gst/base/gstbasesink.c(3143): gst_base_sink_is_too_late (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstViewfinderBin:vf-bin/ClutterGstVideoSink:cluttergstvideosink0:
There may be a timestamping problem, or this computer is too slow.


(cheese:2292): cheese-WARNING **: 15:05:24.986: Output state was not configured: ../gst-libs/gst/video/gstvideoencoder.c(2281): gst_video_encoder_can_push_unlocked (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstEncodeBin:image-encodebin/GstJpegEnc:jpegenc0


(cheese:2292): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 15:05:30.142: Unable to create dummy onscreen: No foreign surface, and wl_shell unsupported by the compositor
$ kamoso 
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
kf.kirigami: Warning: Theme implementations should use Kirigami.BasicThemeDefinition for its root item
kf.kirigami: Failed to find a Kirigami platform plugin
Creating QUrl("file:///home/andres/Pictures")
skipping message... imagebin-filesink
kf.kio.widgets: Failed to check which JobView API is supported "The name org.kde.kuiserver was not provided by any .service files"
Killed
$ guvcview 
V4L2_CORE: Unable to find parent usb device.GUVCVIEW: version 2.0.7
GUVCVIEW: couldn't open /home/andres/.config/guvcview2/video0 for read: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:601:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1032:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:397:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Cannot open device /dev/dsp
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:397:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Cannot open device /dev/dsp
ALSA lib confmisc.c:160:(snd_config_get_card) Invalid field card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:482:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid card 'card'
ALSA lib confmisc.c:160:(snd_config_get_card) Invalid field card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:482:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid card 'card'
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1032:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
control[0]:(unknown - 0x6) 0x980001 'User Controls'
GUVCVIEW: (status) saving image to /home/andres/my_photo-1.jpg
GUVCVIEW: (status) saving video to /home/andres/my_video-1.mkv
ENCODER: add stream 0 to stream list
ENCODER: add stream 1 to stream list
ENCODER: (matroska) add seekhead entry 0 (max 10)
ENCODER: (matroska) add seekhead entry 1 (max 10)
[mp2 @ 0x7fd2c41cee40] Ignoring attempt to flush encoder that doesn't support it
AUDIO: (portaudio) Aborting audio stream
AUDIO: Closing audio stream...
[mpeg4 @ 0x7fd2c4001800] Ignoring attempt to flush encoder that doesn't support it
ENCODER: (matroska) closing context
ENCODER: (matroska) closing cluster
ENCODER: (matroska)writing cues
ENCODER: (matroska)add seekhead
ENCODER: (matroska) add seekhead entry 2 (max 10)
ENCODER: (matroska)write seekhead
ENCODER: (matroska) end duration = 3872 (3872.000000) 
[mp2 @ 0x7fd2c41cee40] Ignoring attempt to flush encoder that doesn't support it
$ GST_V4L2_USE_LIBV4L2=1 gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! xvimagesink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstSystemClock
Redistribute latency...
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstXvImageSink:xvimagesink0: Output window was closed
Additional debug info:
../sys/xvimage/xvimagesink.c(568): gst_xv_image_sink_handle_xevents (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstXvImageSink:xvimagesink0
Execution ended after 0:00:12.564068837
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...

These are the steps I followed to install on my machine.

git clone https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie.git

Then created the script for ubuntu as described here: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd/wiki/Installation#ubuntu-installation-script

I did not check if it was needed but also did the suspend steps here: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd/wiki/Installation#for-ubuntu-1504-and-higher-should-work-on-some-other-distros-too