Camera

[pelon07]

Hello,

I have a sony vaio VGN CR220E. I installed Ubuntu 8.10 but I cannot use my camera, does somebody know how to setup my camera.

I did lspci and I got

pelon@pelon-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
08:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
08:07.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
08:07.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

[jmadero]

what are you trying to use it with?

First thing

terminal

sudo apt-get install camorama

then run camorama and see if the camera is detected.

[pelon07]

I already installed camorama and when I tried to use it I got this message:

Could nog connect to the video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection

[stef4001]

Try luvcview it workt for my it is also in te packages

[pelon07]

I already installed luvcview from synaptic package manager, I tried to use camorama but it did not work, I got the same message "Could nog connect to the video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection"

[stef4001]

maybe e stupid question but how dit you start luvcview i hope in the terminal be cos there is nothing in your start menu to do this.
Greetz,

[pelon07]

yea I started in the terminal, also I tried this look:
(this is the site were I found all the info)
[Como] Driver webcam r5u870 v0.11.0 (Vaio y HP) | Ubuntu-es

I did:
$ lsusb
* 05ca:1839 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6 (for VAIO CR)

(that is my camera so it looks like it is supported)
$ wget http://mediati.org/r5u870/r5u870-0.11.0.tar.gz
$ tar xf r5u870-0.11.0.tar.gz
$ cd r5u870-0.11.0
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo modprobe r5u870 (when I tried this failed I got a message saying "Not found")
(I tried this other steps but it did not work)
$ sudo apt-get install xawtv
$ xawtv


I tried all the steps but it did not work, do you know any idea why it did not work, I know the step ($ sudo modprobe r5u870) did not work for me and I think that one is very importante but I would like some help with this.

Thx in advance

[stef4001]

I found this, go to this site
Debian Driver for Ricoh Webcam
than go here and download the .dep file for your kernel
Index of /arakhne/pool/r/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/
I hope it works
have funn