peeths003

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Hi ,

I am using SONY VAIO VGN-CR320E . and i have Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6 attached to it . which is the driver for that and how can i make it work ... ?

tredegar

It is probably a USB camera.
Find out about it with lsusb
Make a note of the Vendor Id & Product Id
Then go here: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
and look it up. Good luck.

peeths003

it is not a USB camera . The camera is attached to the LCD screen of the notebook ..

it is embedded in the LCD screen .

In the Link mentioned , it is having the driver only for Sony VGP-VCC1
the one that i am using is VGP-VCC6

peeths003

This is the output of lsusb.

[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 15ca:00c3 Textech International Ltd. Mini Optical Mouse
Bus 006 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 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 044e:3012 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 044e:3013 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 044e:3010 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 044e:3011 Alps Electric Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

TB0ne

The camera may be physically part of the monitor (I know what you're talking about...thinking of getting one myself. ), but may be hooked in via the USB 'hub', built in the mobo.

What is
as listed above? Alps is probably the track pad, and you've plugged in an optical mouse. Here's a couple of references to it..you don't say what distro you're using...

EDIT: Sorry, you mentioned Fedora9...didn't see it. The modules may still apply, though.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-734338.html
http://linux-solved.com/post/HP-DV60...LVED-7948.html

tredegar

Try this:
http://linux-solved.com/post/SOLVED-...ELP-16521.html

tredegar

So, did you get it working, or not?
(I hate unfinished threads)]

peeths003

I got some issue in booting up my notebook ... please give me sometime ... i will update you guys ....

peeths003

I have one question here ....

my Sony webcam is "VGP-VCC6" , then why lsusb shows as "Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd"

Thanks
Peeths

TB0ne

Because the webcam was made by Ricoh, for Sony......

peeths003

Thanks .. i just wanted to confirm that i am not using the incorrect driver ....

nkd

I will put the steps as I understand it and that may help you.....
(a) identify the device : either it is a pci device then use command lspci, or it is a internal cam ( which are connected to usb hubs internally) so use a lsusb.

(b) Next you should look for a driver which supports your camera / device . The device ID from the previous step comes in handy for that.
Check out the sites :-
(i) http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
(ii) http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
You are bound to find your usb cam supported in one of the above sites.

(c) Next download the driver and install it (mostly it is the ./configure, make , make install process).

(d) Restart your machine. When it boots up then issue the following commands and see the output :-
(i) dmesg | grep nameOfYourCam example:- dmesg | grep CrystalEye

(ii) lsmod | grep nameOfTheDriverYouInstalledAbove
example :- lsmod | grep uvcvideo
Both the commands will give some output meaning your cam is now usable.

(e) Finally, start up an application like xawtv and use the cam.

Hope this helps
nishith

peeths003

Hi .. i am going out of station for 5 days ... will update you guys once i am back ....