My camera is:
$ lsusb | grep -i cam
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ca:1830 Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 [R5U870]
The loader detects correctly camera, I think:
$ sudo ./loader
Contraseña:
r5u87x firmware loader v0.2
Searching for device...
Found camera: 05ca:1830
Camera reports positive microcode state.
Camera reports microcode version 0x0100.
Not doing anything - camera already setup.
Successfully uploaded firmware to device 05ca:1830!
But, cheese and skype don't detects the camera. The /dev/video device don't create.
Regards.
]]>Im having a little trouble with the camera.. Im using a vaio TZ31MN . Camera loads successfully but does not show in "lspci" . Tried using Mplayer like the wiki says to take a snapshot and getting the following
MPlayer SVN-r32792-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
161 audio & 351 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
comment: first try, more to come ;-)
v4l2: unable to open '/dev/video0': No such file or directory
v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Bad file descriptor
v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.
Any idea please?
]]>As far as the project goes... What, if anything, are you aware of that needs to be done? (other than firmware status)
]]>I have a Sony Vaio VGN-CR120E laptop with the Ricoh 1839. I grew tired of the lack of innovation on the developments and bought a Logitech camera. I would love to have the ricoh working for the ability to have it function as a sort of lo-jack.
I'll go get the source and see if I can tinker with it.
]]>The project should be fairly straight forward, the code itself isn't terribly complex.
Once the new fork has incorporated most of the fixes, there probably isn't much that will be left to be done, so it will be a project with low time commitment.
I would look into doing this myself, but I unfortunately don't have a laptop with a compatible camera anymore.
Just mentioning this to anyone who is willing to save what looks like to be an easy, useful project from stagnating.
Note: if you do decide to do this, the firmware files need to be checked for legality. It would be good to document different licenses before starting.
I would imagine a lot of people (including ubuntu) would greatly appreciate this effort.
Cheers.
Upstream project - https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
AUR package - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21458