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When I open the Cheese application in Ubuntu 18.04 I get this error message:

There was an error playing a video from the webcam.
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  • Please include more details like your system name, configuration, etc. Is it a thinkpad? If yes, it may help. – Kulfy Oct 08 '18 at 15:34
  • my laptop is Toshiba-satellite c55-c1665 and my operating system is Ubuntu 18.04, what's configuration should i mention ?? – Muhamad Nady Oct 08 '18 at 15:47
  • First of all lets determine your WebCam. First of all run sudo apt install v4l-utils. Then sudo apt-get install v4l-utils and paste the output of latter in question. – Kulfy Oct 08 '18 at 15:53
  • i had installed this package and get ("No device found") when i open cheese – Muhamad Nady Oct 08 '18 at 16:26
  • This may help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/457983/how-can-i-get-my-webcam-to-work-with-ubuntu-14-04 and this https://askubuntu.com/questions/461657/integrated-webcam-not-detected-after-update-to-14-04/ – Kulfy Oct 08 '18 at 16:35
  • when i type this commend line ($ ls -ltrh /dev/video) get (ls: cannot access '/dev/video': No such file or directory) may help to detect the problem – Muhamad Nady Oct 08 '18 at 19:07
  • also run this($ dmesg | tail -n 20) #get this ---[ end trace bcdefccb35bfff8a ]--- [ 973.566335] media: media_devnode_register: cdev_device_add failed [ 973.566440] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 973.566442] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1) – Muhamad Nady Oct 08 '18 at 19:15
  • please help i need open CV to complete my project by this way i can't pass this year of college – Muhamad Nady Oct 08 '18 at 19:18
  • Try app like Skype or try Ubuntu in Live mode abd test the same. I am afraid that your camera is broken. – Kulfy Oct 09 '18 at 07:26
  • yah maybe it was broken anyway thank you for your response – Muhamad Nady Oct 09 '18 at 21:55

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You can try uninstalling and reinstalling Cheese.

sudo apt-get --purge remove cheese
sudo apt-get install cheese
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