R5u870 built in Sony webcam won't work!!

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#1

lsusb gives:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 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 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6 [R5U870]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04e8:1f05 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

dmesg :

0.000000] Linux version 2.6.37.6-0.9-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2011-10-19 22:33:27 +0200
8.928845] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
9.001824] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (05ca:1839)
9.002179] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
9.002439] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
9.002453] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
9.002507] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
9.002510] USB Video Class driver (v1.0.0)

I’ve found mentions of the r5u870 driver but all the links seem to lead nowhere now. Can anybody help please?

#2

A little bit of google produced this:

https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_Setup
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_Setup

Looks like the last 2 are discussions / guides, the first one is a userspace tool that you will have to compile. I don’t have this cam so I can’t help you further but at least it’s a place to start.

#3

Did you try installing the driver that is already packaged for openSUSE (as opposed to recompiling) ?

#4

If I assume you are using openSUSE-11.3 (based on your kernel version) than a good place to start searching for an already compiled driver is here: software.opensuse.org: Search Results

Be certain you install the correct rpm, and do NOT install more rpms than necessary.

If you need guidance there (as to what rpm to choose) please advise.

#5

I did an rpm search on opensuse but nothing came up. I just clicked your link and a number of rpms showed up!!! Will try them and get back to you.
Cheers

#6

All sorted! Bizarre how those rpm’s didn’t show when I searched the other day though.

#7

Glad to read its sorted.

wrt the rpms you did not see, don’t forget in the ‘search page’ to tune the ‘search options’.