Re: [M560x-driver-devel] R: s5k83a on Acer 5102 - ubuntu 8.04

[E. A. <eri...@gm...>]

2008/8/27 Gabriele Zanardo <zan...@ya...>

> Thanks for your suggestion, Dorneles.
>
> I'm going to describe my last experiment, hope it wll help.
>
>
> 0) I plugged the power cable in, and turned the latop on
> 1) In linux, "make load" of the driver. The green light turns on, but with
> livecam I could see just a pixel sensible to the light.


This is strange.


>
> 2) rebooted the laptop (that was therefore not completely powered off, I
> suppose the camera was still "supplied with electricity", so it could have
> not lost all its settings), chose "windows" in grub and tried to use the
> webcam: I didn't get anything understandable.


So it didn't work in windows either?


>
> 3) turned the lapop off and unplugged the power cable. Turned it on in
> windows and the webcam worked: got colour pictures
> 4) rebooted the laptop in linux, as I did in punkt 2, ie always supplying
> power. Now the webcam works, even if in black and white.
>

Black and white is expected, as this is the result when using the bayer
mode.



>
> This test makes me think, something is not (or wrong) written in the webcam
> configuration. Do you agree? Should I do some other testing?
>

If you get issues both in windows and in linux there might be some hardware
issues.

Regards,
Erik


>
> Thank for your effort!
>
> Gabriele
>
>
> --- Mer 27/8/08, Gabriele Zanardo <zan...@ya...> ha scritto:
>
> > Da: Gabriele Zanardo <zan...@ya...>
> > Oggetto: R: s5k83a on Acer 5102 - ubuntu 8.04
> > A: m56...@li...
> > Data: Mercoledì 27 agosto 2008, 19:48
> > Hi you all,
> >
> > I keep on struggling with this webcam ;)
> >
> > I succeded in installing livecam, but just revision 13, I
> > hope it's
> > not a problem...
> >
> > By the means of it, I could see only a small portion of
> > screen getting
> > lighter or darker, as a conseguence of my finger on the
> > camera.
> > Then I returned to windows, I turned the camera on and all
> > the colors
> > were wrogn: I could see and recognize the picture, but it
> > was "too
> > green"... I shut down, plug the power cable again in,
> > and in Windows
> > everything was right. Then I returned to linux and I could
> > see a
> > picture in Black and white, about 30 fps. Then I tried
> > another driver,
> > the green light of the camera went down... so I reinserted
> > the general
> > module and all what I could see was just a pixel, sensible
> > to the
> > light, bust just one.... I suppose the driver misses to
> > initialize
> > some unknown registers.... it is possible? what can I do?
> > how can I
> > help? My laptop is a amd 64 bit running ubuntu 64 8.04
> >
> > Thanks everybody (and forgive my englisch un-skillness) :(
> > :)
> >
> > Gabriele
> >
> >
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