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hoacker
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: [solved] R5U870 site down? Driver for kernel 2.6.24 needed |
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Hi. The project site for the ricoh webcam driver seems to be down for quite a while (http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/). Anyone knows somthing about that?
Found some source package elsewhere on the net but I can't compile it for a 2.6.24 kernel, gives some errors.
Anyone knows if there's an other driver than works for the ricoh cam (in vaio vgn-sz5mn laptop).
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opotonil
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Patched/maintained version of r5u870 driver written by Sam Revitch:
Gentoo ovarlay:
The last version compile on amd64 with gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3 but it dont created /dev device.
Bye.
PD: Sorry for my english. |
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hoacker
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| opotonil wrote: | Patched/maintained version of r5u870 driver written by Sam Revitch:
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Yes! Works great. But had to patch Kconfig due to missing CONFIG_VIDEOBUF_DMA_SG. Somehow this was missing in 2.6.24.
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The last version compile on amd64 with gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3 but it dont created /dev device.
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Did it create the device /dev/v4l/video0 ? You could also use this device. |
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opotonil
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Hi.
It didn't create any device:
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# ls /dev | grep -ie ^v
vcs
vcs1
vcs12
vcs2
vcs3
vcs4
vcs5
vcs6
vcs7
vcsa
vcsa1
vcsa12
vcsa2
vcsa3
vcsa4
vcsa5
vcsa6
vcsa7
vg
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Did it create the device for you? What kernel are you using?
Thanks, bye. |
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hoacker
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| opotonil wrote: |
Did it create the device for you? What kernel are you using?
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The device /dev/v4l/video0 is created and udev creates /dev/video0 linking to /dev/v4l/video0. I use 2.6.24-zen1 (zen-sources, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-641834-highlight-.html).
Any suspicious dmesg after you modprobe the module? There should be a hint why there's no device. |
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opotonil
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hi.
Now there is messages on dmesg:
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usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 49
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 50
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
r5u870-0: Detected Sony VGP-VCC8
r5u870-0: requesting microcode state
r5u870-0: camera reports negative microcode state
r5u870-0: loading microcode file "r5u870_183b.fw"
r5u870-0: command a0[246] failed: -71
r5u870-0: initialization failed: -71
r5u870-0: minidriver init failed: -71
r5u870: probe of 1-2:1.0 failed with error -71
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Does any idea? I go to see the page for bugs.
Thanks, bye. |
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hoacker
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| opotonil wrote: | dmesg:
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r5u870-0: Detected Sony VGP-VCC8
r5u870-0: requesting microcode state
r5u870-0: camera reports negative microcode state
r5u870-0: loading microcode file "r5u870_183b.fw"
r5u870-0: command a0[246] failed: -71
r5u870-0: initialization failed: -71
r5u870-0: minidriver init failed: -71
r5u870: probe of 1-2:1.0 failed with error -71
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Some microcode has to be uploaded to the cam at first use, this failed for some reason. Without the microcode the cam will not work. I have a dual boot laptop with VISTA and I used the cam with VISTA first. At this first use the microcode was uploaded. If you have a dual boot, too, you can try to use the cam under windows, it then should work properly with gentoo.
If you don't have windows installed, I think it's best to open a new thread in this forum with the error message above (this thread is marked "solved", not many people will read this thread). I personally have no idea why the microcode upload fails for you. |
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opotonil
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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ok, thanks. I will open other post.
only a last question, do I need to active module "meye" on kernel?
Thanks again, bye.
PD: I don't have windows installed. |
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hoacker
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| opotonil wrote: | | do I need to active module "meye" on kernel? |
I don't have this kernel option set, so I think it's save to disable it.
Could be that you are missing the microcode file. Please check if /lib/firmware/r5u870_183b.fw is present in your filesystem. If not, you can download it, put in in /lib/firmware and try again.
http://svn.mediati.org/svn/r5u870/tags/STABLE_CURRENT/r5u870_183b.fw |
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opotonil
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I have the microcode file on /lib/firmware and on /lib64/firmware/ (i am using amd64)
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16248 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1810.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15794 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1812.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15380 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1830.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16224 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1832.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12787 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1833.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11834 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1834.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16330 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1835.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15537 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1836.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14876 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1839.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16729 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_183a.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16670 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_183b.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13357 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1870_1.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13722 feb 1 12:23 r5u870_1870.fw
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Thanks, bye. |
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