Sony Vaio ID 05ca:1839 Motion Eye Webcam

[srinivas_m]

Hi, I am using ubuntu 10.4 on my Sony vaio(VGN-CR320E) laptop.
In that Motion eye inbuilt camera is there. Camera is not working in ubuntu 10.4, but it worked fine in XP and windows vista.

The output for the #lsusb command is
srinivas@srinivas-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 044e:3012 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 044e:3013 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 044e:3010 Alps Electric Co., Ltd Bluetooth Adapter
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 044e:3011 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

In The above info there is no info about camera. What should i do get the camera info and make it to work.
please help me to resolve this problem so that i can use inbuilt motion eye camera.


Thanks in advance
srinivas

[Jonners59]

At least I have found a thread with the problem I have. Not getting much response on my thread....

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1628821

I tried below on my wife's sony viao running 10.10

I still gets errors:

chiara@chiara-Pinkviao:~/r5u870$ sudo make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-23-generic/build M=/home/chiara/r5u870 V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-23-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.o
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c: In function ‘usbcam_v4l_vidioc_querycap’:
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:522: error: ‘struct device’ has no member named ‘bus_id’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c: In function ‘usbcam_v4l_ioctl’:
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1170: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘video_usercopy’ from incompatible pointer type
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:320: note: expected ‘struct file *’ but argument is of type ‘struct inode *’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1170: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘video_usercopy’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:320: note: expected ‘unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct file *’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1170: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘video_usercopy’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:320: note: expected ‘v4l2_kioctl’ but argument is of type ‘long unsigned int’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1170: error: too many arguments to function ‘video_usercopy’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1174: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘video_ioctl2’ from incompatible pointer type
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:324: note: expected ‘struct file *’ but argument is of type ‘struct inode *’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1174: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘video_ioctl2’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:324: note: expected ‘unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct file *’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1174: error: too many arguments to function ‘video_ioctl2’
/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.c:1162: warning: unused variable ‘udp’
make[3]: *** [/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam/usbcam_fops.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/chiara/r5u870/usbcam] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/chiara/r5u870] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-23-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2
chiara@chiara-Pinkviao:~/r5u870$ modprobe r5u870
FATAL: Module r5u870 not found.
chiara@chiara-Pinkviao:~/r5u870$ xawtv /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.35-23-generic)
xinerama 0: 1280x800+0+0
can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available
chiara@chiara-Pinkviao:~/r5u870$

AND YES, it really is pink!

[Hellaxe]

Hello guys:
this camera is annoying me to much.
This is what i get from the make.log:

/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam/usbcam_util.c: In function ‘usbcam_urb_allocbuf’:
/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam/usbcam_util.c:164: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usb_buffer_alloc’
/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam/usbcam_util.c:167: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam/usbcam_util.c: In function ‘usbcam_urb_freebuf’:
/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam/usbcam_util.c:178: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usb_buffer_free’
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam/usbcam_util.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build/usbcam] Error 2
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.5/build] Error 2

By the way I'm using this *.deb
http://www.arakhne.org/ricoh/
I think it's the same thing but for some reason the dkms package is not working with the kernel 2.6.35-23-generic.
Any help???
thanks


BIG EDIT: somehow I discovered the link: http://www.gilesbathgate.com/tag/linux/
and now this stupid camera is working. Thanks to this man, all credits are to him.

[Jonners59]

Hello guys:
this camera is annoying me to much.

Any help???
thanks.

Me, too... But no replies to the thread for support, which is even more frustrating.

Many thanks.... Your link worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zotrules]

Me, too... But no replies to the thread for support, which is even more frustrating.

Many thanks.... Your link worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet, you get a very lousy picture. the quality is very bad, to say the least. very dark picture. unclear, noisy. it works with one program and's dead with any other. I've arrived to the conclusion that It's not the driver. it could be the kernel, video card or the programs.

[siabost]

It's the latest kernels. Support for videodev.h has been removed - see comment on Kubuntu Forum http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3115676.0

SOLVED (for me anyway):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...eodev.h&page=3
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04, kernel 2.6.38-8-generic & works splendidly

Enter the following lines (one at a time) in the terminal - you will be asked your password after entering the first line (the password entry will not show in the terminal but it is being registered).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:r5u87x-loader/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r5u87x
sudo /usr/share/r5u87x/r5u87x-download-firmware.sh

You'll get a GPG authentication warning but ignore that & also a y/n warning (enter y) after the last line shown above.

Good Luck

[reflux21]

Thanks siabost!

You have helped immensely!

[klopi]

thank you siabost so much.
I have used your guide and now the webcam is turn on
My pc is a sony vaio vgn-cr21z

Thank you more