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From: E. A. <eri...@gm...> - 2008-08-28 06:32:15
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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 > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo > > spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i > > messaggi > > http://mail.yahoo.it > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto > spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i messaggi > http://mail.yahoo.it > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > M560x-driver-devel mailing list > M56...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/m560x-driver-devel > |