2017-11-02 12:30 GMT+01:00 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> Doing the 'desktop_menus' validation test for Final RC-1.2 - the awful
> one where you have to run every app on the live image - I just found
> that Cheese doesn't seem to work with my webcam any more:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508706
>
> it definitely used to, this seems to be a new issue in F27. But it
> looks a lot like it may be hardware-related, so it'd be great if folks
> with different webcams could try out Cheese in F27 and report whether
> it works for them. Please reply to this mail or in the bug. Thanks!

I tested with two devices, on onboard one on my Lenovo X1 Gen3 and a
Logitech HD Webcam C510, they both worked but it took Cheese ages to
start up like a minute.

See the following bug report regarding the slowness:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782627

It also causes trouble for Users panel:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783789
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Ondrej Holy
Software Engineer, Core Desktop Development
Red Hat Czech s.r.o