Created attachment 18288 [details] /sys/devices I have an external Apple iSight firewire webcam. I am using coriander and vloopback to create a video4linux device. The webcam works great with applications like Ekiga and gqcam. But the webcam does not work with Cheese or Skype. I filed a bug with cheese ( see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545190 ) where I discovered that Hal is not seeing the iSight as a Video4Linux device. When I do "hal-find-by-capability --capability video4linux" nothing s returned. Yet Ekiga and gqcam both see my iSight Firewire camera (being piped through coriander and vloopback) as a Video4Linux Device. I do hope you can get hal to see my iSight as a V4L device. RobK P.S.I am not too impressed with Linux's support of Firewire webcams. Coriander eats up a lot of CPU. Perhaps, you can find a way for hal to directly support Firewire webcams and make them appear as v4l devices.
Please run/start hal in debug mode (hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog), check if HAL is ready (check e.g. with lshal) and attach then the part of /var/log/messages since you started HAL to this bug.
No info since 8 months, close bug.
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