mepis 7.0 beta 5 installing web cam driver

johnwick · 02-05-2008, 11:49 PM

Hello!
I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv9413).
It has an internal HP Web Cam (1.3 mega pixel) that works fine in the windows vista side of my dual boot. But I have been trying to find a linux driver for it for months. I thought I had the correct drivers twice,
but have failed to make it work, i did a lsusb command and it lists:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd

so I researched and found some info that pointed me to a link
www.palmix.org that had a driver r5u870. They extracted a correct firmware from the Windows Vista driver.

these are the instructions they gave:

Remeber that you need your kernel headers or sources installed!
Download the needed archive from here.
Untar it and go inside the new created folder:

tar xvfz r5u870-0.10.1.tar.gz
cd r5u870-0.10.1

With root privileges give this commands:

make
make install

and then the command:

modprobe r5u870

will be created a new device /dev/video0 about your webcam.
Now you can use any program that supports webcams like Skype 2.0, xawtv, kopete, camstrem (only version 0.27 or above), ecc....
If you want to make permanent the module loading on each boot, edit the file /etc/modules with your favorite text editor and add, if there aren't, these lines:

r5u870
videodev
video-buf
v4l1-compat
v4l2-common

save and close the file.

after following the instructions the r5u870 driver was stored at
/lib/modules/2.6.22-1-mepis-smp/extra/r5u870.ko

but there is no /dev/video0

I received on error messages but the web cam device is not found by the applications.
I got frustrated and went to circuit city and purchased a creative Labs Live! Cam Video IM Pro (VF0410) which claimed it worked out of the box.
I got it for $25. I should have paid the $40 for the Logitec web cam!
(my friend has one and it works on my Linux laptop).
because no one has completed building a Linux driver for the Live! Cam model yet!!!
help!!??!!
has any one had experience with installing either web cam? suggestions??

namida12 · 02-13-2008, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnwick

Hello!
I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv9413).
It has an internal HP Web Cam (1.3 mega pixel) that works fine in the windows vista side of my dual boot. But I have been trying to find a linux driver for it for months. I thought I had the correct drivers twice,
but have failed to make it work, i did a lsusb command and it lists:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd

so I researched and found some info that pointed me to a link
www.palmix.org that had a driver r5u870. They extracted a correct firmware from the Windows Vista driver.

these are the instructions they gave:

Remeber that you need your kernel headers or sources installed!
Download the needed archive from here.
Untar it and go inside the new created folder:

tar xvfz r5u870-0.10.1.tar.gz
cd r5u870-0.10.1

With root privileges give this commands:

make
make install

and then the command:

modprobe r5u870

will be created a new device /dev/video0 about your webcam.
Now you can use any program that supports webcams like Skype 2.0, xawtv, kopete, camstrem (only version 0.27 or above), ecc....
If you want to make permanent the module loading on each boot, edit the file /etc/modules with your favorite text editor and add, if there aren't, these lines:

r5u870
videodev
video-buf
v4l1-compat
v4l2-common

save and close the file.

after following the instructions the r5u870 driver was stored at
/lib/modules/2.6.22-1-mepis-smp/extra/r5u870.ko

but there is no /dev/video0

I received on error messages but the web cam device is not found by the applications.
I got frustrated and went to circuit city and purchased a creative Labs Live! Cam Video IM Pro (VF0410) which claimed it worked out of the box.
I got it for $25. I should have paid the $40 for the Logitec web cam!
(my friend has one and it works on my Linux laptop).
because no one has completed building a Linux driver for the Live! Cam model yet!!!
help!!??!!
has any one had experience with installing either web cam? suggestions??

johnwick,

Sorry I had not checked this forum for several weeks, and see no-one has replied to your webcam inquiry... I do not use a webcam, but guess you might want to visit the mepis forum mepislovers.com and repost your question... I have seen a number of webcam users post question and get immediate replies...

JR

JR

johnwick · 02-14-2008, 08:20 AM

Hello!
I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv9413).
It has an internal HP Web Cam (1.3 mega pixel) that works fine in the windows vista side of my dual boot. But I have been trying to find a linux driver for it for months. I thought I had the correct drivers twice,...

Thanks JR