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Novartum

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-03

Posts: 33

Sony Vaio Motion Eye

Hi everyone,

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

lsusb shows the device

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

There seems to be 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!

Last edited by Novartum (2011-03-06 18:46:35)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Sony Vaio Motion Eye

Doesn't dmesg show you if a /dev/ gets created? Modprobe isn't useful if the device is recognized already. If a device gets created you might just need to run a video-player to get it working

Novartum

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-03

Posts: 33

Re: Sony Vaio Motion Eye

Thank you for the response, Spider.007. dmesg does not show any webcam.

folletto

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 26

Re: Sony Vaio Motion Eye

Hi,
Try a way I posted in this thread
or there's a package in AUR.
My webcam works well in Cheese and Skype.
Cheers and good luck

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My gnome-look stuff

Novartum

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-03

Posts: 33

Re: Sony Vaio Motion Eye

Hi folletto,
When I ran sudo ./loader, I got:

Searching for device...

Error: Failed to find any supported webcams.