Vaio r5u870 webcam driver, DKMS package

[oooh]

I will give that I try

However, after speaking with the r5u870 driver developers (http://palmix.org/r5u870-en.html) and they told me that it is a firmware limitation of the firmware dump that this driver uses.

Are you using this driver or the one from http://arakhne.org/ricoh/index.html ?

[superlex]

No, I'm using uvcvideo.

I followed this procedure:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev build-essential gcc automake mercurial
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
cd r5u87x
make
sudo make install

[oooh]

As it seems the r5u870 is just being replaced by r5u87x , I tried, and it works PERFECT

My problem now is that the video in SKYPE is transparent, double and zoomed in

Any hints for this ?

"You set a circus, and you get dwarfs" (Spanish saying meaning that you solve a matter, and more problems appear...)

[superlex]

Try with kernel 2.6.33 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.33/

[oooh]

Sure I will give that a try, but before that I want to try out the Skype video configurations:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...83#post8916383

Still not working fully, but I got some improvements!

[oooh]

I updated to Skype 2.1.0.81 and it solved the matter. I also needed to do this:

<Video>
<AutoSend>1</AutoSend>
<CaptureHeight>480</CaptureHeight>
<CaptureWidth>640</CaptureWidth>
<Fps>32</Fps>
<RecvPolicy>callpolicy</RecvPolicy>
</Video>

In the configuration file of skype, /USERHOME/.Skype/USER/config.xml

Issue solved, r5u87x driver rocks

[superlex]

As it seems the r5u870 is just being replaced by r5u87x , I tried, and it works PERFECT

My problem now is that the video in SKYPE is transparent, double and zoomed in

Any hints for this ?

"You set a circus, and you get dwarfs" (Spanish saying meaning that you solve a matter, and more problems appear...)

Please, try doing this:

sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pinchartl/uvcvideo/
cd uvcvideo
make 
sudo make install

[oooh]

Sure I did that already, and it made the camera work fine

However, it was giving me the double image in skype, which was not a uvc problem but a skype problem

Finally, your suggestion plus skype updating solved the matter completelly

So now I have it working fully with brightness control, contrast, everything !!!

Gracias for the info !

[Shannon_VanWagner]

Hi All.

I used comment #16 at this bug to fix this.

Basically, it's just installing 2 *.deb files (firmware and driver) from:
http://www.arakhne.org/ricoh/index.html

Works on Sony Vaio SZ670N
$ lsusb |grep Ricoh
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:183a Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC7 [R5U870]

Be sure to install build-essential, linux-headers-generic, and possibly others for dependency req.

Hope this helps someone!

[dre12b]

Thanks for all of the help on this issue put into the thread. I'm getting the webcam on a Sony VGN-FZ140E to use Skype and Ekiga. Two questions:

1) I installed the r5u870 driver before realizing I can use r5u87x and uvcvideo. Do I need to uninstall?
2) Ran the commands listed above to make and make install uvcvideo. Got some errors. I've included the last errors below, but here are more (don't want to post too much text). Am I doing something wrong? I did this after installing r5u870 and then r5u87x.

make[3]: *** [/home/ddutra/Downloads/uvcvideo/v4l/firedtv-1394.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/ddutra/Downloads/uvcvideo/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-16-generic'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ddutra/Downloads/uvcvideo/v4l'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm very inexperienced with Linux but follow directions well. Any help or suggestions are appreciated!