spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Mauricio Henriquez]

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Hi guys,

Not sure if is the right place to ask since this device use a gspca driver
and not sure if that driver is related to uvc or not, if not please point
me to the right place...

Recently I'm trying to make work a Sunplus crappy mini HD USB camera, lsusb
list this info related to the device:

Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd

  idVendor           0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
   idProduct          0x1528
   bcdDevice            1.00
   iManufacturer           1 Sunplus Co Ltd
   iProduct                2 General Image Devic
   iSerial                 0
...

Using the gspca-2.13.6 on my Fed12 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE kernel), the
device is listed as /dev/video1 and no error doing a dmesg...but trying to
make it work, let say with xawtv, I get:

This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE)
xinerama 0: 1600x900+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
/dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
v4l2: oops: select timeout

..or doing:
xawtv -c /dev/video1 -nodga -novm -norandr -noxv -noxv-video

I get:
ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
v4l2: oops: select timeout
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument


vlc, cheese, etc give me similar "Timeout" related messages...

I read some post about similar devices (but ID 12 or 14) that successfully
works with gspca, so it seems that this one is close to work but may be need
a fix on some timeout or something similar on the driver...

Any clue of what can be done?..any suggestions or right place to ask?, do
you need any other info to help to dig into the problem?

Thanks a lot.

Mauricio

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Mauricio R. Henriquez Schott
Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación
Universidad Austral de Chile - Sede Puerto Montt
Los Pinos S/N, Balneario de Pelluco, Puerto Montt - Chile
Tel: 65-487440
Fax: 65-277156
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Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Theodore Kilgore]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Mauricio Henriquez wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Not sure if is the right place to ask since this device use a gspca driver
> and not sure if that driver is related to uvc or not, if not please point
> me to the right place...

Looks right to me, and I hope that someone has more direct knowledge about 
your camera, which I do not. I do have a couple of questions, however, and 
a comment.

> 
> Recently I'm trying to make work a Sunplus crappy mini HD USB camera, lsusb
> list this info related to the device:
> 
> Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
> Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
> 
>  idVendor           0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>   idProduct          0x1528
>   bcdDevice            1.00
>   iManufacturer           1 Sunplus Co Ltd
>   iProduct                2 General Image Devic
>   iSerial                 0
> ...
> 
> Using the gspca-2.13.6 on my Fed12 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE kernel), the
> device is listed as /dev/video1 and no error doing a dmesg...but trying to
> make it work, let say with xawtv, I get:
> 
> This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE)
> xinerama 0: 1600x900+0+0
> WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
> /dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
> ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
> v4l2: oops: select timeout
> 
> ..or doing:
> xawtv -c /dev/video1 -nodga -novm -norandr -noxv -noxv-video
> 
> I get:
> ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
> v4l2: oops: select timeout
> libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
> libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> vlc, cheese, etc give me similar "Timeout" related messages...

The comment:

Perhaps a good thing to try would be the nice, simple, basic program svv, 
which you can get from the website of Jean-Francois Moine. Some of these 
other things do not always work. Especially I have had trouble with xawtv, 
though the xawtv people may have fixed a lot of problems while I was not 
watching them.

The question:

Is this a dual-mode camera which is also supposed to have still camera 
capabilities? If so, you might be interested in contacting the Gphoto 
project. I just searched for it there, and it does not seem to be listed.

I assume that the specialists on the spca cameras will step forward. I 
am not one of them, as I said. Good luck.

Theodore Kilgore

Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Jean-Francois Moine]

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:39:30 -0400
Mauricio Henriquez <buhochileno@gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently I'm trying to make work a Sunplus crappy mini HD USB camera, lsusb
> list this info related to the device:
> 
> Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
> Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
> 
>   idVendor           0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>    idProduct          0x1528
>    bcdDevice            1.00
>    iManufacturer           1 Sunplus Co Ltd
>    iProduct                2 General Image Devic
>    iSerial                 0
> ...
> 
> Using the gspca-2.13.6 on my Fed12 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE kernel), the
> device is listed as /dev/video1 and no error doing a dmesg...but trying to
> make it work, let say with xawtv, I get:
	[snip]

Hi Mauricio,

The problem seems tied to the alternate setting. It must be the #3
while the lastest versions of gspca compute a "best" one. May you apply
the following patch to gspca-2.13.6?

----------------------8<----------------------
--- build/spca1528.c.orig	2011-09-05 08:41:54.000000000 +0200
+++ build/spca1528.c	2011-09-05 08:53:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -307,8 +307,6 @@
 	sd->color = COLOR_DEF;
 	sd->sharpness = SHARPNESS_DEF;
 
-	gspca_dev->nbalt = 4;		/* use alternate setting 3 */
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -349,6 +347,9 @@
 	reg_r(gspca_dev, 0x25, 0x0004, 1);
 	reg_wb(gspca_dev, 0x27, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x06);
 	reg_r(gspca_dev, 0x27, 0x0000, 1);
+
+	gspca_dev->alt = 4;		/* use alternate setting 3 */
+
 	return gspca_dev->usb_err;
 }
 
----------------------8<----------------------

(Theodore, this webcam may work in mass storage mode with ID 04fc:0171.
In webcam mode with ID 04fc:1528, it offers 3 interfaces: interface 0
contains only an interrupt endpoint, interface 1 is the webcam with
only isochronous endpoints and interface 2 contains bulk in, bulk out
and interrupt in endpoints - I don't know how to use the interfaces 0
and 2, but sure the interface 2 could be used to access the camera
images)

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Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Mauricio Henriquez]

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On 09/04/2011 10:07 PM, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
>
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Mauricio Henriquez wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Not sure if is the right place to ask since this device use a gspca driver
>> and not sure if that driver is related to uvc or not, if not please point
>> me to the right place...
>>      
> Looks right to me, and I hope that someone has more direct knowledge about
> your camera, which I do not. I do have a couple of questions, however, and
> a comment.
>
>    
>> Recently I'm trying to make work a Sunplus crappy mini HD USB camera, lsusb
>> list this info related to the device:
>>
>> Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
>> Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>>
>>   idVendor           0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>>    idProduct          0x1528
>>    bcdDevice            1.00
>>    iManufacturer           1 Sunplus Co Ltd
>>    iProduct                2 General Image Devic
>>    iSerial                 0
>> ...
>>
>> Using the gspca-2.13.6 on my Fed12 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE kernel), the
>> device is listed as /dev/video1 and no error doing a dmesg...but trying to
>> make it work, let say with xawtv, I get:
>>
>> This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE)
>> xinerama 0: 1600x900+0+0
>> WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
>> /dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support
>> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
>> v4l2: oops: select timeout
>>
>> ..or doing:
>> xawtv -c /dev/video1 -nodga -novm -norandr -noxv -noxv-video
>>
>> I get:
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
>> ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
>> v4l2: oops: select timeout
>> libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
>> libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>> vlc, cheese, etc give me similar "Timeout" related messages...
>>      
> The comment:
>
> Perhaps a good thing to try would be the nice, simple, basic program svv,
> which you can get from the website of Jean-Francois Moine. Some of these
> other things do not always work. Especially I have had trouble with xawtv,
> though the xawtv people may have fixed a lot of problems while I was not
> watching them.
>    
yeap, I try it, same kind of mesages...
> The question:
>
> Is this a dual-mode camera which is also supposed to have still camera
> capabilities? If so, you might be interested in contacting the Gphoto
> project. I just searched for it there, and it does not seem to be listed.
>    
yeap a dual-mode camera...
> I assume that the specialists on the spca cameras will step forward. I
> am not one of them, as I said. Good luck.
>
> Theodore Kilgore
>    
Thanks!

Mauricio


-- 
Mauricio R. Henriquez Schott
Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación
Universidad Austral de Chile - Sede Puerto Montt
Los Pinos S/N, Balneario de Pelluco, Puerto Montt - Chile
Tel: 65-487440
Fax: 65-277156
mail: mauriciohenriquez@uach.cl


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Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Mauricio Henriquez]

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On 09/05/2011 03:19 AM, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:39:30 -0400
> Mauricio Henriquez<buhochileno@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Recently I'm trying to make work a Sunplus crappy mini HD USB camera, lsusb
>> list this info related to the device:
>>
>> Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
>> Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>>
>>    idVendor           0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
>>     idProduct          0x1528
>>     bcdDevice            1.00
>>     iManufacturer           1 Sunplus Co Ltd
>>     iProduct                2 General Image Devic
>>     iSerial                 0
>> ...
>>
>> Using the gspca-2.13.6 on my Fed12 (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE kernel), the
>> device is listed as /dev/video1 and no error doing a dmesg...but trying to
>> make it work, let say with xawtv, I get:
>>      
> 	[snip]
>
> Hi Mauricio,
>
> The problem seems tied to the alternate setting. It must be the #3
> while the lastest versions of gspca compute a "best" one. May you apply
> the following patch to gspca-2.13.6?
>    
Thanks Jean, yeap I apply the patch, but still the same kind of messages 
about timeout sing xawtv or svv:

xawtv:
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument
v4l2: read: Invalid argument
libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired
ioctl: VIDIOC_STREAMON(int=1): Timer expired
v4l2: oops: select timeout
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=MMAP): Device or 
resource busy
libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument
v4l2: read: Invalid argument

svv:
raw pixfmt: JPEG 640x480
pixfmt: RGB3 640x480
mmap method
VIDIOC_STREAMON error 62, Timer expired

this camera in mass storage mode works ok...

Cheers

Mauricio

> ----------------------8<----------------------
> --- build/spca1528.c.orig	2011-09-05 08:41:54.000000000 +0200
> +++ build/spca1528.c	2011-09-05 08:53:51.000000000 +0200
> @@ -307,8 +307,6 @@
>   	sd->color = COLOR_DEF;
>   	sd->sharpness = SHARPNESS_DEF;
>
> -	gspca_dev->nbalt = 4;		/* use alternate setting 3 */
> -
>   	return 0;
>   }
>
> @@ -349,6 +347,9 @@
>   	reg_r(gspca_dev, 0x25, 0x0004, 1);
>   	reg_wb(gspca_dev, 0x27, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x06);
>   	reg_r(gspca_dev, 0x27, 0x0000, 1);
> +
> +	gspca_dev->alt = 4;		/* use alternate setting 3 */
> +
>   	return gspca_dev->usb_err;
>   }
>
> ----------------------8<----------------------
>
> (Theodore, this webcam may work in mass storage mode with ID 04fc:0171.
> In webcam mode with ID 04fc:1528, it offers 3 interfaces: interface 0
> contains only an interrupt endpoint, interface 1 is the webcam with
> only isochronous endpoints and interface 2 contains bulk in, bulk out
> and interrupt in endpoints - I don't know how to use the interfaces 0
> and 2, but sure the interface 2 could be used to access the camera
> images)
>
>    


-- 
Mauricio R. Henriquez Schott
Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación
Universidad Austral de Chile - Sede Puerto Montt
Los Pinos S/N, Balneario de Pelluco, Puerto Montt - Chile
Tel: 65-487440
Fax: 65-277156
mail: mauriciohenriquez@uach.cl


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Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Jean-Francois Moine]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:33:49 -0400
Mauricio Henriquez <buhochileno@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jean, yeap I apply the patch, but still the same kind of messages 
> about timeout sing xawtv or svv:

OK Mauricio. So, I need more information. May you set the gspca debug
level to 0x0f

	echo 0x0f > /sys/module/gspca_main/parameters/debug

run 'svv' and send me the kernel messages starting from the last gspca
open?

Thanks.

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Jef		|		http://moinejf.free.fr/

Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

[Mauricio Henriquez]

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On 09/05/2011 01:15 PM, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:33:49 -0400
> Mauricio Henriquez<buhochileno@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Thanks Jean, yeap I apply the patch, but still the same kind of messages
>> about timeout sing xawtv or svv:
>>      
> OK Mauricio. So, I need more information. May you set the gspca debug
> level to 0x0f
>
> 	echo 0x0f>  /sys/module/gspca_main/parameters/debug
>
> run 'svv' and send me the kernel messages starting from the last gspca
> open?
>    
Ok, I set the gspca debug thing and this is the dmesg messages after 
running svv:

gspca-2.13.6: [svv] open
gspca-2.13.6: try fmt cap JPEG 640x480
gspca-2.13.6: try fmt cap JPEG 640x480
gspca-2.13.6: frame alloc frsz: 115790
gspca-2.13.6: reqbufs st:0 c:4
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b7739000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b7621000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b7604000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b75e7000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: init transfer alt 3
gspca-2.13.6: isoc 128 pkts size 512 = bsize:65536
spca1528-2.13.6: wait_status_0 timeout
gspca-2.13.6: kill transfer
gspca-2.13.6: [svv] close
gspca-2.13.6: frame free
gspca-2.13.6: close done
gspca-2.13.6: [svv] open
gspca-2.13.6: try fmt cap JPEG 640x480
gspca-2.13.6: try fmt cap JPEG 640x480
gspca-2.13.6: frame alloc frsz: 115790
gspca-2.13.6: reqbufs st:0 c:4
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b7732000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b761a000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b75fd000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: mmap start:b75e0000 size:118784
gspca-2.13.6: init transfer alt 3
gspca-2.13.6: isoc 128 pkts size 512 = bsize:65536
spca1528-2.13.6: wait_status_0 timeout
gspca-2.13.6: kill transfer
gspca-2.13.6: [svv] close
gspca-2.13.6: frame free
gspca-2.13.6: close done

...hope you know what it mean :-) ..let me know if I can help in 
anything else, here I'm also playing with the code :-)

Mauricio
> Thanks.
>
>    


-- 
Mauricio R. Henriquez Schott
Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación
Universidad Austral de Chile - Sede Puerto Montt
Los Pinos S/N, Balneario de Pelluco, Puerto Montt - Chile
Tel: 65-487440
Fax: 65-277156
mail: mauriciohenriquez@uach.cl


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