[Sugar-devel] The stacktrace for the Pippy camera example error

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Mon Dec 5 20:57:48 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:52:20AM +0000, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:59:52AM +0100, laurent bernabe wrote:
> > > I've installed the gst utility, then run your command => no error
> > > I went in /tmp folder and see a "strange" capture from my webcam named
> > > pippypic.jpg
> >
> > What do you mean by "strange"? Was the image good? Could you see the
> > image content? What does "file /tmp/pippypic.jpg" say?
> >
> 
> In my case, the image can be open, but is "all black", nothing more..

In that case, the problem is not Sugar or Pippy, and you can work with
your Linux distribution support community to determine the problem.  My
guess is that it has something to do with the camera hardware, driver,
or gst.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/


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