USB Camera - ORite VC-2110

[Vanquirius]

Hello,

A friend let me borrow his old camera for some time, and I'm lost about if a) it is going to work with linux b) how to get it working if it does.

The model is an ORite VC-2110 (2.1 Megapixels). Google turns up a lot of pages about this camera, unfortunately they're all in Chinese (I believe the camera is made in Taiwan?), a language I certainly don't master.
I still have to buy an USB cable to connect the camera to the PC, but that seems to be a pretty generic cable.

Does anybody have an idea if I could transfer images/videos from this model to my pc (using linux)? If so, what kernel options/patches do I have do enable/obtain? (In gentoo-sources I only see USB support for Kodak DC-2xx and Mustek MDC800).

Worst case scenario, could I get it working under VMWare?

[NeddySeagoon]

ManuChao,

I had a look at the spec sheet. That camera only has a 1.3M pixel sensor and its interpolated up to 2.1M pixels. Thats the bad news.

USB cameras often have two data trasnser modes called digital camera and mass storage.

There are certainly some Linux programs that understand digital camera mode. I'll need to do some digging, since I last used them under RedHat and haven't emerged one on Gentoo yet.

For mass storage mode, build the generic SCSI modules, USB stuff and usb-storage. The camera then appears as /dev/sda1, if you don't have any other generic SCSI drives.

The two setting are mutually exclusive (in my HP 310 anyway).

A few 'gotchas' for the unwary.
1. Switch the camera on before you plug it into the USB connector. My camera is very picky about that.

2. With low batteries, the data transfer out of the camera usually fails. the pictures get corrupt over the USB. Its very worrying the first time you see it but the images in the camera are OK.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon

[Vanquirius]

Seems pretty similar to my old mp3-player.
I'll give it a go with USB-storage (as soon as I make time to buy the cable).

Thanks for the reply, it helped clear things up for me.

[Vanquirius]

It's been a while... And I finally got to test the camera. However, things seem to go funky. Having all modules probed with the camera connected on the USB port (the camera even says "Mass Storage" in its screen), I try to mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam -vfat

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bash-2.05b# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam -t vfat
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

And /dev/sda1 disappears. I can get it back doing rmmod usb-storage && modprobe usb-storage, but only to get the same thing later on. I tried using gphoto2/gtkam, but it seems my camera is not supported. Anyone willing to give me a hand?

dmesg:

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hda: WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 92049U6, ATA DISK drive
hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-RW CRX100E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
blk: queue c01f6324, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)
blk: queue c01f6464, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdb: 39882528 sectors (20420 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 22:04:08 Aug  8 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a98000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a9a000, IRQ 12
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 40k freed
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 2
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb1:2.0
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x733/0x1310) is not claimed by any active driver.
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:02) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
Adding Swap: 979956k swap-space (priority -1)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64
nvnet: selecting duplex setting as auto duplex mode.
nvnet: selecting speed settings as auto-negotiation.
nvnet: Optimizing driver for CPU
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
hcd.c: ehci-hcd @ 00:02.2, PCI device 10de:0068 (nVidia Corporation)
hcd.c: irq 10, pci mem e0bd9000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 1. 0
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.1-1 address 2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 2
  Vendor: HITACHI   Model: DVD-ROM GD-5000   Rev: 0212
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: SONY      Model: CD-RW  CRX100E    Rev: 1.0m
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:04) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 3
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb1:3.0
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-1, assigned address 3
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor:           Model: 1.3M DigitalCAM   Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:41) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
intel8x0: clocking to 47388
blk: queue c01f6324, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide0: Drive 0 didn't accept speed setting. Oh, well.
blk: queue c01f6464, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4496  Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: unsupported bridge
agpgart: no supported devices found.
0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 14x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr0: mmc-3 profile capable, current profile: 0h
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table

lsmod:

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Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
vfat                   10796   0  (autoclean)
fat                    33592   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
sd_mod                 11212   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          13688   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18296   0  (autoclean) (unused)
nvidia               1631456  11  (autoclean)
serial                 48324   0  (autoclean)
isa-pnp                32580   0  (autoclean) [serial]
snd-intel8x0           19364   0
snd-mpu401-uart         3776   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-emu10k1            74772   0
snd-pcm                64640   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer              15812   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6612   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            15072   0  [snd-mpu401-uart snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device          4352   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-util-mem            1408   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep               5216   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec         41880   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-emu10k1]
snd                    32100   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-util-mem snd-hwdep snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore               4388   4  [snd]
ide-cd                 30472   0
cdrom                  29888   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi                8912   0
sg                     29356   0  (unused)
usb-storage            63956   0
scsi_mod               59412   5  [sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi sg usb-storage]
ehci-hcd               15688   0  (unused)
ip_tables              12896   0  (unused)
nvnet                  26464   1

EDIT: Just tested the camera in a Winblows machine and it worked, so the camera's filesystem is probably not the problem/corrupt.

[Vanquirius]

Road Bump!

[BitJam]

I've got my USB camera working just fine via /dev/sda1. But some people mount the /proc/bus/usb device instead of /dev/sda1 as in this fstab line:

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none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs auto,user,devmode=0660,devgid=85 0 0

I don't have this because I don't have "Preliminary USB device filesystem" compiled into my kernel. I know it is a long shot but, if you do have this kernel option set then maybe you need to mount via /proc/bus/usb instead of /dev/sda1.

If that doesn't work then I'd suggest compiling in all of the USB verbose modes you can find to get a better idea of what is failing where.

[Vanquirius]

Thanks for the reply,

You're right, I did have that option enabled in my kernel. I mounted the filesystem/added the fstab line you suggested.

Here's a bit from /proc/bus/usb/devices:

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C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0733 ProdID=1310 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=ViewQuest Technologies Inc.
S:  Product=1.3M DigitalCAM
S:  SerialNumber=01.00.00

I'm a bit clueless about how to proceed next however. I tried browsing and mounting a variety of subfilesystems. I still have more to investigate...

Stuff I found on google is not that encouraging, however:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-u ... 07127.html

Found a driver that frustrated me:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spca50x/

But is said to support Intel Cameras, maybe I can get my old Intel webcam working for the time being.

I'll keep trying, thanks

[beatboy]

EDIT found it