[Spca50x-devs] Black/Very Dark display with Philips SPC 610NC

[TJ <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Black/Very Dark display with Philips SPC 610NC on Ubuntu Gutsy x86_64
(2.6.22-14) with gspca 20071224.

I've noticed other reports in the mailing-list of 'black' displays with
64-bit kernels. I'm wondering if this is a 64-bit issue.

In my case the display is actually VERY DARK, but not always totally
black. The SPC 610NC has a slide-down sleeve that reveals a bright LED.
With that lit the display shows my finger if it is within about 5
centimetres of the lens. Any further away and the display is totally
black.

I used spcagui and noticed it always reports 'whiteness=0' and starts
with brightness, contrast, and colour all set to 0 or close-to (sliders
are at the bottom of the scale):

 grabbing method default MMAP asked 
VIDIOCGMBUF size 2457632  frames 2  offets[0]=0 offsets[1]=1228816
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=44 hue=0 color=0 contrast=0 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15

I wondered if this is relevant since using spcagui with another camera
that uses the ov51x-jpeg driver reports 'whiteness=26880', the sliders
are mid-scale, and the video from that camera is good and bright:

 grabbing method default MMAP asked 
VIDIOCGMBUF size 1843232  frames 2  offets[0]=0 offsets[1]=921616
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=32768 hue=40960 color=32768 contrast=31744 whiteness=26880depth=12 palette=15

Is there a way to manually increase the 'whiteness' value by writing directly to sysfs or some other mechanism?

$ sudo modprobe gspca debug=5
# connect Philips SPC 610NC camera
$ lsusb | egrep Pixart
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2601 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
$  tail /var/log/kern.log
[  457.078768] usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
[  457.078778] gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.20 registered
[  463.796404] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[  464.029430] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  464.032362] gspca_core.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. (PAC7311)
[  464.032371] gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_probe:4275] Camera type JPEG 
[  464.032376] gspca_core.c: [spca50x_configure:2633] video_register_device succeeded
[  464.032383] Pixart/pac7311.h: [pac7311_config:193] Find Sensor PAC7311
[  464.034289] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x40, 0x78: 0x0040
[  464.035284] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x40, 0x78: 0x0040
[  464.036287] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x44, 0x78: 0x0044
[  464.037290] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x04, 0xFF: 0x0004
[  464.038285] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x80, 0x27: 0x0080
[  464.039363] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0xCA, 0x28: 0x00CA
[  464.040280] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x53, 0x29: 0x0053
[  464.041278] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x0E, 0x2A: 0x000E
[  464.042277] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x01, 0xFF: 0x0001
[  464.043277] utils/spcausb.h: [spca5xxRegWrite:130] reg write: 0x40, 0x00, 0x20, 0x3E: 0x0020
[  464.044550] gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1249] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 160 minh 120
[  464.044557] gspca_core.c: [spca50x_configure:2650] Spca5xx Configure done !!
[  464.044567] gspca_core.c: [spca5xx_probe:4304] setting video device = ffff810048ec8800, spca50x = ffff81004ea44000

$ spcagui -d /dev/video1
SpcaGui version: 0.3.5 date: 18 September 2005
video device /dev/video1
Camera found: Pixart PAC7311 
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=18 hue=0 color=0 contrast=0 whiteness=0depth=24 palette=4
Bridge found: PAC7311 
Unable to find a StreamId !!
StreamId: 6 Unknow Camera
try palette 15 depth 12
Available  palette 15 
try palette 3 depth 16
Available  palette 3 
try palette 4 depth 24
Available  palette 4 
try palette 5 depth 32
Available  palette 5 
probe size in 
Available Resolutions width 640  heigth 480 
Available Resolutions width 384  heigth 288 
Available Resolutions width 352  heigth 288 
Available Resolutions width 320  heigth 240 
Available Resolutions width 192  heigth 144 
Available Resolutions width 176  heigth 144 
Available Resolutions width 160  heigth 120 
 grabbing method default MMAP asked 
VIDIOCGMBUF size 2457632  frames 2  offets[0]=0 offsets[1]=1228816
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=44 hue=0 color=0 contrast=0 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=44 hue=0 color=0 contrast=0 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15
VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=44 hue=0 color=0 contrast=0 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15
VIDIOCSPICT brightnes=44 hue=0 color=0 contrast=0 whiteness=0depth=12 palette=15
ByeBye !! 
unmapping frame buffer
freeing frame buffer
close v4l 

$ for param in /sys/module/gspca/parameters/*; do echo "$param = $(cat $param)" ; done
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/autoexpo = 1
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/compress = 0
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/debug = 5
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/force_gamma_id = -1
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/force_rgb = 0
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/force_sensor_id = -1
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/gamma = 3
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/GBlue = 256
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/GGreen = 256
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/GRed = 256
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/lightfreq = 50
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/OffBlue = 0
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/OffGreen = 0
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/OffRed = 0
/sys/module/gspca/parameters/usbgrabber = 0

Because it is relatively long I've attached the kernel debug log of the
very short spcagui session reported above (8613 lines, 77KB gzip-ed,
827KB uncompressed).

Attachment: spc610nc-spcagui-black-video.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

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