WEBCAM Ricoh Co. ( ID
05ca:183b ) 1.3 Mega pixel VCC8
by Francesco Palmisano
This is a driver's project about Ricoh's Webcam finding on a great
number of notebook like the recent Sony Vaio FZ2x.
This type of webcam works on USB bus and needs, besides a correnct
driver, a special firmware.
There is a linux project about driver r5u870 at this address (but
the link results unattainable).
I've started from the above-said project to create a new driver that
working on newer webcams: i've modified the original driver and
extracted a correct firmware from Windows Vista driver.
Let's
go:
Work on Kernel 2.6.23 and kernel 2.6.24 !!
ATTENTION: with the kernel
2.6.24 or above (2.6.25.x) the drive for the webcam need to be change
with this
(0.11.2 version).
Remeber that you need your kernel headers or sources installed!
Download the needed archive from here.
Untar it and go inside the new created folder:
tar xvfz
r5u870-0.10.1.tar.gz
cd r5u870-0.10.1
With root privileges give this commands:
make
make install
and then the command:
modprobe r5u870
will be created a new device /dev/video0 about your webcam.
Now you can use any program that supports webcams like Skype 2.0,
xawtv, kopete, camstrem (only version 0.27 or above), ecc....
If you want to make permanent the module loading on each boot, edit the
file
/etc/modules with your favourite text editor and add, if
there aren't, these lines:
r5u870
videodev
video-buf
v4l1-compat
v4l2-common
save and close the file.
Now there are two Debian packages version of this driver
downloadables here-kernel-2.6.23
and here-kernel-2.6.24.
You can install it with the command:
for kernel 2.6.23:
dpkg -i
r5u870_0.10.1_i386.deb
for kernel 26.24:
dpkg -i
r5u870_0.11..2_i386.deb
IMPORTANT:
the module r5u870
goes in conflict with the uvcvideo
module,
therefore it is necessary to uninstall or to unload the uvcvideo module!!
ENJOY YOUR WEB !!
For deeping go to the
italian version of this page
Contact: info@palmix.org
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