Sony Vaio Motion Eye

Novartum · 04-04-2011, 09:01 PM

Hi everyone,

I am having difficulties configuring my webcam on my Sony VGN-FW580J (running Arch linux).

lsusb shows the device

Code:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:183d Ricoh Co., Ltd Sony Vaio Integrated Webcam

I believe that there is support through the uvcvideo kernel driver, but I have not gotten it to work (tried modprobe). Does anyone have any advice or experience with this?

Thank you in advance!

no2498 · 04-05-2011, 10:48 AM

Ricoh cams need their own driver

Novartum · 04-05-2011, 05:54 PM

Well a quick google search seems to confirm that only uvcvideo *should* be required. Could you please show me what you are referring to (only drivers for ricoh I can find are ahixon and r5u87x,which is where it says that they are now obsolete).

Here is output of "dmesg | grep uvc"

Code:

uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (05ca:183d)
usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo

no2498 · 04-06-2011, 09:36 AM

open a terminal type gstreamer-properties click enter

click video
try v4l and v4l2
use the bottom test button for each 1
you may need to change the plugin auto find

see if the cam comes on

Novartum · 04-06-2011, 02:09 PM

Thanks for your response. Don't have gstreamer-properties/gnome installed though. Anything else I can use?

no2498 · 04-07-2011, 09:32 AM

cheese uses gstreamer
so im at a loss

Novartum · 04-07-2011, 12:32 PM

But I don't have cheese installed... I want to use skype.