webcamd for integrated ricoh webcam on sony vaio VGN-SZ4XN/C laptop (linux driver r5u870)

[Giuseppe Pagnoni]

Here's a link to the source code, just in case (but it's for Linux):

http://avilella.googlepages.com/r5u870_patched.tar.bz2

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> On 11/26/14 15:08, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I apologize for reposting this here, by I am trying with no success to
>> make the camera on my laptop work under FreeBSD 10.1 i386. The laptop
>> is a Vaio VGN-SZ4XN/C, and the integrated webcam is a Ricoh-made one.
>> Under Linux, it is recognized as: "05ca:1835 Sony Visual Communication
>> Camera VGP-VCC5" and is supported by the driver r5u870.
>>
>> I am unable to make it work under FreeBSD. I installed the packages:
>> - lib4l
>> - v4l_compat
>> - webcamd
>> - cuse4BSD-kmod
>>
>> And entered in /boot/loader.conf:
>> cuse4bsd_load="YES"
>>
>> and in /etc/rc.conf:
>> webcamd_enable="YES"
>>
>> The camera is attached to usb 4.3. Now, if I enter:
>> # webcamd -d ugen4.3 -i 0 -v 0
>>
>> I get:
>> Attached to ugen4.3[0]
>> webcamd: cannot find USB device
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Where is the source code for the "r5u870" driver? From a quick grep, it is
> not part of the webcamd package, unless it uses some of the standard USB
> video classes. Possibly you need to patch webcamd to build support for your
> hardware. NOTE: Binary Linux drivers will not work!
>
> --HPS
>



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Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dip. Scienze Biomediche, Metaboliche e Neuroscienze
Sezione Fisiologia e Neuroscienze
Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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