Webcam support: Genius Slim 311R ?
Hi,
I'm looking for Linux support for the Genius Slim 311R USB 1.1 infrared webcam with built-in microphone. lsusb says: Code:
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0458:704b KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) Code:
usb 1-6: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 lshw says: Code:
*-usb The distro is Debian etch, with compiled 2.6.26.2 kernel. Video4Linux is compiled into my kernel as follows: zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i v4l Code:
CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2_COMMON=m Any info e.g. about the chipset ? /Cheers. |
Hi tothzp,
A small amount of googling produced this site where you can download a linux driver for the webcam. http://www.downloadrealm.com/downloa...19&aff.subid=2 A quick visit to the manufacturer's website ought to tell you about the chipset. cheers, jdk |
Thanks. It seems that I had bad luck cause I googled on it before without success. (Neither did I find it on any Linux HCL site.)
Nevertheless the page you recommend is a pay-for-download site... so if you have another hint, pls. let me know. I really wonder how you found that with google, as I still can't :( |
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cheers, jdk |
Chipset found...
I think I've found some clue at last.
Genius is not offering any Linux driver, but I downloaded the Mac OS X one they have as a dmg image and mounted it as HFS+ partition: Code:
mount -t hfsplus -o loop,ro,umask=0 Slim311R_OSX_1.0.dmg a/ Code:
qtComponent="Sonix SN9C201 WebCam.component" linux-projects.org like this generic SN9Cxxx driver. If I have some time to try it, I'll report here if it works... (PS: I'm pretty suspicious about the pay site. I'm not sure they really offer a driver, but one has to pay before even trying to search. And of course, paying for a Linux driver would be really lame :)) ) |
Partly solved...
Just for the record:
At last, I managed to get some help on hup.hu. With that, it turned out that the camera is a Sonix SN9C105 with an OVR_7660 sensor. I found a branch-off from the old GSPCA code that could be modified to get it working at a basic level. To make things more complicated, the kernel USB video interface has changed from 2.6.25 to 2.6.27, so I had to rewrite a couple of things. I made a patch on it, it's here. (Use wget to get it, for some reasons angelfire doesn't allow links from other pages and returns 404.) TODO:
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Any new developments with that? With recent kernel pack (2.6.29.1-smp) for slackware-current I modify gspca kernel driver's source (adding the PCI IDs), and module compiles, and loads, and makes video0 entry in /dev... However, no cam app I tried is able to work with that. Should I recompile cam apps, or is there something else I'm missing?
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I mean, camera's LED is showing "turned on", and something is even coming from it, but it looks like a garbage -- green squares in skype, undefinable garbage in camstream. New xawtv shows "can't grab display".
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Hi,
Sorry, I didn't try it on the 2.6.29. Will do so if have some time for that and report back. |
I've taken one of the branch-offs (mgspcav1-01.00.20-3_patched_geniusslim311r-2.6.28.7) and patched it for the 2.6.29. The resulting module actually loads but coredumps on the camera plugging in, because of one of the secondary data pointers being NULL.
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