Lenovo inbuilt Camera

[rbhayani]

Hi All,

I have a lenovo 7757 model which has an inbuilt camera. I have FC9 working on it. However I cannot use the camera. How do I enable it? If someone could point me to a driver if it needs to be installed.

Thanks
Raziya

[waterhead]

The driver needed depends on the chips that it uses. You can find more info on it by running this command, if it is a PCI device.

lspci -nn

Or if it is a USB device, use this command.

lsusb

Since you don't know which it is, post both.

There is a good possibility that it uses the gspca driver. It may be already loading, so look for it with this command.

lsmod

You can check the list of supported cameras, to see if yours in on it. It could still work even if it isn't on the list.

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

There is also a neat How-To video from Linux Journal magazine.

Get Your Webcam Working with GSPCA | Linux Journal

[rbhayani]

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a03] (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2843] (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller [8086:2828] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1713] (rev 02)
08:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
08:06.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
08:06.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 12)
08:06.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
08:06.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev ff)



[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2 Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
usb_storage 86920 0
vfat 12672 1
fat 42912 1 vfat
fuse 49436 2
rfkill_input 8320 0
bridge 43668 0
stp 6148 1 bridge
bnep 14848 2
rfcomm 33936 4
l2cap 21504 16 bnep,rfcomm
sunrpc 156052 3
cpufreq_ondemand 9868 1
acpi_cpufreq 12172 1
dm_mirror 19968 0
dm_log 12292 1 dm_mirror
dm_multipath 17292 0
scsi_dh 9476 1 dm_multipath
dm_mod 48948 3 dm_mirror,dm_log,dm_multipath
ipv6 230260 22
arc4 5760 2
btusb 14360 2
bluetooth 48608 8 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
ecb 6528 2
crypto_blkcipher 18052 1 ecb
b43 132000 0
rfkill 11288 3 rfkill_input,b43
mac80211 173668 1 b43
cfg80211 23816 1 mac80211
input_polldev 7176 1 b43
snd_hda_intel 353044 5
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 30364 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
sdhci_pci 10624 0
i915 86660 2
snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
sr_mod 17064 0
sdhci 17540 1 sdhci_pci
pcspkr 6272 0
cdrom 32664 1 sr_mod
mmc_core 43676 1 sdhci
firewire_ohci 22532 0
snd_seq_device 9996 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
sg 31028 0
firewire_core 35616 1 firewire_ohci
ricoh_mmc 7552 0
i2c_i801 12048 0
joydev 12736 0
snd_pcm_oss 42496 0
iTCO_wdt 13732 0
iTCO_vendor_support 6916 1 iTCO_wdt
snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss
crc_itu_t 5760 1 firewire_core
snd_pcm 65924 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
drm 146404 3 i915
i2c_algo_bit 8836 1 i915
snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
video 20240 0
snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
output 6528 1 video
tg3 107780 0
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
i2c_core 21396 4 i915,i2c_i801,drm,i2c_algo_bit
snd 50744 19 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,sn d_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer,snd_hwdep
libphy 18560 1 tg3
ssb 36228 1 b43
wmi 9640 0
soundcore 9416 1 snd
ata_generic 8452 0
pata_acpi 7680 0
ata_piix 24836 4
libata 135148 3 ata_generic,pata_acpi,ata_piix
sd_mod 32408 5
scsi_mod 123772 6 usb_storage,scsi_dh,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif 5632 1 sd_mod
ext3 109192 2
jbd 43284 1 ext3
mbcache 10244 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 23312 0
ohci_hcd 24336 0
ehci_hcd 32780 0


WHat does all these means? if someone could please help me out.

[waterhead]

The first two (lspci and lsusb) show the devices that are connected to the PCI and USB bus of your computer. The third (lsmod) shows the driver modules that are loaded on your system. In Linux, the drivers are modules of the operating system's kernel. Hence the name kernel module.

Unfortunately, I don't see any hardware that looks like a video capture device (aka: camera). And no modules are then loading either. I tried to look up your model at the Lenovo web site, but the model info you provided is incomplete.

The best thing you can do, is to first identify the manufacturer of the web camera. This way we may be able to track down a driver for it. To be honest, since it doesn't seem to appear in the hardware lists, I don't think that it will work.

If you are using the stock kernel that came with Fedora 9, you should upgrade to the latest. It may help with recognizing your web cam. You may want to even consider a fresh install using the latest version, Fedora 10.

[rbhayani]

The exact make and model is: Y410 - 7757 9QQ 15" notebook.

[rbhayani]

So would'nt there be any quick work around for this? I dont see any responses...

[waterhead]

If your system doesn't "see" the device, it follows that it then can't access the device to use it. I still say that you may need the latest Linux kernel and distribution, but that may not be enough. You could try using a current LiveCD, and see if it recognizes the device in lsusb or lspci.