From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59047 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222Ab1DUNPg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:15:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4DB02E1A.1050207@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:16:10 +0200 From: Hans de Goede MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Mason CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Driver for r5u870 USB webcams References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: Hi, On 04/21/2011 03:08 PM, Jon Mason wrote: > My laptop has the "Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC7 > [R5U870]" webcam. A quick scan of the kernel does not show the USB ID > listed. `lsusb` has it listed as: > > Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05ca:183a Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication > Camera VGP-VCC7 [R5U870] > > I managed to find a Linux driver on the internet at > http://code.google.com/p/r5u870/ > The comment on the website seems to imply the driver has been > abandoned by it's original writer. > > I am wondering if there are any plans to provide support for this > hardware via extending another driver or if there are any plans to > pull this driver into the kernel. r5u87x based cams work with the regular uvcvideo driver, but first they need to have firmware loaded into them (at every boot). See here for the firmware load tool for linux: https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/wiki/Home Note chances are this tool is packaged for your distribution, for example for Fedora it is available in rpmfusion nonfree under the package name "r5u87x-firmware" Regards, Hans