Re: [Spca50x-devs] Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1

[Sebastian Mauer <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Volkan,

I just tried the steps you mentioned, but had no success. Even if I 
create the video0 device,
xawtv or any other application can't access it. I have no idea, though 
the driver successfully loaded with:

usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
drivers/usb/media/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.08 registered

sound good, doesn't it?

Does the spca5xx driver support the camera builtin the Sony VAIO VGN-FE 
series?
lsusb shows:

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.

As Shane Helms said:

It's USB controller is by Vimicro, VC0321 USB 2.0 PC camera controller.
 It's part of the ZC0300 series, but differs from the supported 
 ZC0301, ZC0301P and ZC0302 in that it's USB2.0 compatible.


I have a feeling this chipset is just the same as ZC030x but with
 support for USB2.0 for higher image rate.


Can we get this thing to work?


Sincerely,

Sebastian Mauer



Volkan YAZICI schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Jul 16 01:09, Sebastian Mauer wrote:
>   
>> I just finished installing Ubuntu on my Sony VAIO VGN-FE21S, and 
>> everything buit the builtin camera VGP-VCC1 does work.
>> However I was able to compile and load the spca50x driver, but I don't 
>> get a /dev/video0 or 1 device.
>>     
>
> AFAIK, it must exist already if you use a static device file system,
> unless you use a dynamic fs like devfs. Can you try to create device
> manually with using below command:
>
> shell# mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
>
> If that works, though it probably will, you can create other nodes
> (video1, video2, etc.) by looking at related major and minor device
> numbers in linux/Documentation/devices.txt
>
> For an immediat test you can try sth like that:
>
> shell# apt-get install xawtv
> shell# xawtv -c /dev/video0
>
>
> Regards.
>   


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