Sony webcam Motion Eye.

[darioalexander]

Dears.

I have a Sony vaio VGN-cr120e with Fedora 10, it has a integraded webcam Motion eye.

i need to know how install it. i dont have the driver yet.

thanks!

[Brian1]

Need more info. no idea what the model has exactly in it.
What is in the output of ' dmesg ' command.
Output of the following commands.
/sbin/lspci -v
/sbin/lsmod
/sbin/lsusb

Brian

[darioalexander]

This is the result of the lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp. Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 Reciever
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

This is the result of the /sbin/lsmod :

Module Size Used by
fuse 49436 2
i915 53508 2
drm 158260 3 i915
sunrpc 155924 3
ip6t_REJECT 7296 10
nf_conntrack_ipv6 15864 3
ip6table_filter 6400 1
ip6_tables 14736 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 230132 22 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand 9996 1
acpi_cpufreq 12172 1
dm_multipath 17164 0
uinput 10624 0
snd_hda_intel 395544 6
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 30364 0
arc4 5760 2
ecb 6528 2
crypto_blkcipher 18052 1 ecb
snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48320 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 9996 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 41600 0
snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 64772 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
tifm_7xx1 9216 0
uvcvideo 51720 0
compat_ioctl32 5120 1 uvcvideo
videodev 32000 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15876 2 uvcvideo,videodev
tifm_core 10268 1 tifm_7xx1
snd_timer 21896 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
i2c_i801 12048 0
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10372 1 snd_hda_intel
firewire_ohci 22532 0
snd 51768 21 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,sn d_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer,snd_hwdep
firewire_core 35616 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 5760 1 firewire_core
iwlagn 139268 0
yenta_socket 24972 1
rsrc_nonstatic 13568 1 yenta_socket
i2c_core 21396 2 drm,i2c_i801
sony_laptop 32220 0
video 20244 0
output 6528 1 video
iTCO_wdt 13732 0
iTCO_vendor_support 6916 1 iTCO_wdt
soundcore 9416 1 snd
pcspkr 6272 0
iwlcore 116804 1 iwlagn
rfkill 11288 2 iwlcore
mac80211 173668 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211 23816 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
r8169 32132 0
mii 8192 1 r8169
joydev 12736 0
ata_generic 8452 0
pata_acpi 7680 0

[Brian1]

Looks like it is using the uvcvideo module. One could possible confirm from going through the dmesg output. If so you can download an install a program called luvcview and see that it is working correctly.

Brian

[marko]

I was finally able to get my Sony Vaio SZ730's motion eye to work
(usb id code 05ca:183a as seen by lsusb ) which is probably very similar to your 05ca:1839
by using this:

http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/

package which you download as a compressed tar file, mine was called
r5u87x-f40ecd392efb.tar.bz2 I'm guessing the jibberish name after the "-" is from an
svn tag or something so the name might change when you get it.

(note the 1839 is in the docs/model_matrix.txt file in the package)
What I liked about this project is I finally found one with recent activity, the other Ricoh drivers I found were years old. The last code update was nine days back.

download the package from the download link at the upper right, untarring it
and following the instructions in the README. One tip, the first time you load it after
doing the make, make install, it won't seem to work. Like the README says, I needed to do:

r5u87x-loader
r5u87x-loader --reload

after the reload it was working (by viewing the image in camstream).
Note to get the compile to work, you'll likely need to install package
libusb-devel, r5u87x needs it as mentioned in the README but my Fedora 10 copy didn't have it by default.