upside-down cheese

[witek]

Hi,

I`ve just installed cheese on my laptop and cheese shows image upside-down. Any idea how to fix that?
It also does not have its icon in Salix->Multimedia menu.

[gapan]

Is it only in cheese or does the webcam work like that anyway? It appears that some webcams are actually mounted upside-down in some laptops (link). If it's only in cheese, or if you only care about cheese, there is an upside-down plugin in there. If it's a more general problem, then I have seen reports that

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echo 0 >/sys/class/video4linux/video0/vflip

or

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echo 1 >/sys/class/video4linux/video0/vflip

might work. Other than that you can hold your laptop upside down.

And the icon is there, xfce just takes a long time to realize it is.

[witek]

Is it only in cheese or does the webcam work like that anyway?

I tested Ubuntu and Fedora`s cheese and it works OK. It seems only salix has the problem.

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echo 0 >/sys/class/video4linux/video0/vflip

or

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echo 1 >/sys/class/video4linux/video0/vflip

might work. Other than that you can hold your laptop upside down. .

Unfortunately there is no such file 'vflip'. I tried to create it as root but I couldn`t

[gapan]

I tested Ubuntu and Fedora`s cheese and it works OK. It seems only salix has the problem.

It's not a problem with cheese, it's a problem with your webcam/driver. What kernel version are they using? Maybe if you compiled a newer kernel it would work.

[witek]

Of course they are using newer kernels 2.6.32.

[thenktor]

And what about the upside-down plugin?

[shad91]

Other than that you can hold your laptop upside down. .

Now that's funny...gapan

[maximus]

¿ɯǝןqoɹd sıɥʇ ɥʇıʍ ǝsoɥʇ ʇıɟǝuǝq oʇ uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıdʎʇ ʇɹɐʇs ןןɐ pןnoɥs ǝʍ ǝqʎɐɯ - uʍop ǝpısdn doʇdɐן ɹnoʎ uo ƃuıʞɹoʍ ǝɹ,noʎ ǝןıɥʍ uıɐɹʇs ʞɔǝu ɟo ǝɹɐʍǝq ʇsnɾ

¡ʎuunɟ ʎɹǝʌ

[thenktor]

@maximus: funny, how did you do this?

[gapan]

http://www.google.com/search?q=upside+down+text