Vaio r5u870 webcam driver, DKMS package

[beezwings]

I don't really understand how to put myself in the "video" group. I checked the /dev/video0 properties, and it does say the group "video" has read and write access, but when I go to "Manage Groups" no such group exists.

My camera is recognized in gstreamer-properties, but not in Cheese or in Skype. Please, any ideas? I have the Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 running in Jaunty, with the r5u870 driver installed from the repos.

Please help!!

I found a solution!

(Copied from http://forum.skype.com/index.php?sho...11#entry618201)

Edit the file /home/YOURUSERNAME/.Skype/YOURSKYPEID/config.xml

and change the value

<Video>
<Disable>1</Disable>
</Video>

to

<Video>
<Disable>0</Disable>
</Video>

Hope this helps. Still can't get it to work in Cheese though...

[superlex]

I found a solution!

(Copied from http://forum.skype.com/index.php?sho...11#entry618201)

Edit the file /home/YOURUSERNAME/.Skype/YOURSKYPEID/config.xml

and change the value

<Video>
<Disable>1</Disable>
</Video>

to

<Video>
<Disable>0</Disable>
</Video>

Hope this helps. Still can't get it to work in Cheese though...

If you use r5u870 driver, to work in cheese you should do this:

cd /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty
sudo wget http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~asimakis/10-r5u870-webcam.fdi
sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart

[seventh-star]

I keep receiving an abort when I select to continue or not continue with the following line:

username@user-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev build-essential gcc automake mercurial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
gcc is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
autoconf autotools-dev m4 mercurial-common
Suggested packages:
autoconf2.13 autobook autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool
gettext libglib2.0-doc qct vim emacs kdiff3 tkdiff meld xxdiff
python-mysqldb python-pygments
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev m4 mercurial
mercurial-common
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,628kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.
username@user-laptop:~$

I don't know what's going on.
Thanks for anyone who can help.

[superlex]

I keep receiving an abort when I select to continue or not continue with the following line:

username@user-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev build-essential gcc automake mercurial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
gcc is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
autoconf autotools-dev m4 mercurial-common
Suggested packages:
autoconf2.13 autobook autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool
gettext libglib2.0-doc qct vim emacs kdiff3 tkdiff meld xxdiff
python-mysqldb python-pygments
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev m4 mercurial
mercurial-common
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,628kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.
username@user-laptop:~$

I don't know what's going on.
Thanks for anyone who can help.

Y, no y

[seventh-star]

Re:
Quote:
Originally Posted by seventh-star
I keep receiving an abort when I select to continue or not continue with the following line:

username@user-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev build-essential gcc automake mercurial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
gcc is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
autoconf autotools-dev m4 mercurial-common
Suggested packages:
autoconf2.13 autobook autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool
gettext libglib2.0-doc qct vim emacs kdiff3 tkdiff meld xxdiff
python-mysqldb python-pygments
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev m4 mercurial
mercurial-common
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,628kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.
username@user-laptop:~$

I don't know what's going on.
Thanks for anyone who can help.

Y, no y

I've tried both Y and y and N and n and received the exact same message.

[SteveMcQwark]

Anyone know why r5u87x doesn't work at resolutions lower than 640x480?

[superlex]

Anyone know why r5u87x doesn't work at resolutions lower than 640x480?

This is a uvcvideo bug, I think.

[superlex]

I have really good info: with kernel 2.6.33 the bug of uvcvideo has been resolved and all resolutions work fine

[oooh]

Hi

I would like to know if this driver from http://arakhne.org/ricoh/index.html allows Brightness and Contrast control of the camera.

The ru5870 does not allow that due to firmaware limitations, that is why I am asking.

Cheers

[superlex]

Hi

I would like to know if this driver from http://arakhne.org/ricoh/index.html allows Brightness and Contrast control of the camera.

The ru5870 does not allow that due to firmaware limitations, that is why I am asking.

Cheers

I'm using http://sourceforge.net/projects/v4l2ucp/ for brightness control