Vaio webcam

Riku Seppälä riku.seppala at kymp.net
Mon Apr 27 08:11:49 UTC 2009


Steven Stern wrote:
> Anyone have the webcam working on a Sony Vaio?
>
> The system detects it but doesn't seem to be able to use it. Cheese 
> reports no camera detected.
>
> i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: EDID invalid.
> usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=05ca, idProduct=1830
> usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
> usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>
That camera is based on Ricoh R5U87x chipset, you need firmware to make 
it work. You can get the firmware and instructions how to load it here 
http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/ 

Riku




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