Hercules Dualpix HD

manu-tm · 02-02-2009, 12:14 PM

Hi!

I'm trying to get my Hercules Dualpix HD webcam work in Ubuntu.

I modprobed ov534 and the webcam is recognized but it's still not working. I have /dev/video0 but dmesg output says the driver uses video device -1. So I'm not sure if the ov534 driver is the right one or if there is a better choice (if any.)
If somebody uses the same cam or have suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.

ManuTM

arochester · 02-02-2009, 12:29 PM

See http://cafelinux.org/xubuntuforums/i...n.html#msg1081

manu-tm · 02-03-2009, 01:29 PM

Thanks. It seems that the the webcam is uvc compliant. I'm gonna try with uvcvideo.

manu-tm · 02-07-2009, 12:39 PM

The hercules dualpix exchange (o6f8:3005) is uvc compliant but mine is a dualpix HD (06f8:3003), so?
And it's not working yet

manu-tm · 02-11-2009, 01:28 PM

OK, I e-mailed people at Hercules and they said:
reference sensor ov9655.
Which is very informative indeed. Too bad I don't have a degree in electronics.

So if somebody knows something about setting up the damned thing, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Thank you.

manu-tm · 07-07-2009, 01:34 PM

Ok, it seems there is definitely no linux driver for this hardware at the moment. Maybe later...

manu-tm · 11-27-2009, 10:18 AM

There are news (at least for me) about the hercules dualpix hd (06f8-3003.) It's now supported with kernel modules gspca_v4l2 and gspca_ov534 but it seems problems remain. After re-plugging the webcam, I get this from dmesg:

Quote:

[ 1469.568253] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 7
[ 1469.568524] gspca: disconnect complete
[ 1473.752131] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
[ 1478.889193] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/all, error -110
[ 1479.000108] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9
[ 1479.201296] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1479.204309] gspca: probing 06f8:3003
[ 1479.401098] ov534: Sensor ID: 9657
[ 1480.374236] gspca: probe ok
[ 1480.374383] gspca: probing 06f8:3003
[ 1481.405762] 9:2:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[ 1482.679207] 9:2:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[ 1483.737344] 9:2:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84

Im not sure it it's relevant but I know (from the people at hercules) that sensor id is ov9655 (not ov9657). Does anyone have it's cam working or know a fix or is is a bug in the driver? (I know I've already posted about this before but now this hardware is supposed to be supported so...)