Newbie - want to hep and get driver :)

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dda

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Mar 16, 2008, 6:33:00 PM3/16/08
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Hello,

I have two cameras based on Microdia: 0c45:602e (Genius Videocam
messenger) and 0c45:6007 (Genuis Videocam Eye). Both works with gspca,
but image is very dark. 0c45:602e also works with sn9c102, while
0c45:6007 does not (with sn9c102 v 1.44 camorama says
"usb_submit_urb() failed, error -28" in dmesg, and with version 1.48
computer hangs when I plug in the camera). And with sn9c102 also dark
image, and brightness control does not work as well.

So, my question: is there anything I can test on my webcams? My
systems are Ubuntu 7.04 32 bit and 7.10 64 bit. I will be glad to help
with testing or anything else I can do. :)

Thanks!
Dmitry.

dda

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Mar 17, 2008, 8:03:52 PM3/17/08
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Hi guys,

Was my question noticed? Sorry for being impatient...

Thanks!

GWater

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Mar 17, 2008, 8:12:16 PM3/17/08
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Sorry,
so.. welcome ;-)

I am not so familiar with gspca (my last try to make it work for my cam
went wrong) but we are actually developing a new driver especially for
sn9c-cams. You will have to help us with data on your webcams. most
things are explained on the group-pages:
http://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web
Everything else may be asked on the mailing list.

I don't know if there are any other people with your camera here but
somewhere on the pages is a list of all cams.

BTW the dark image on gspca is a known bug, several people mentioned the
problem - hopefully we'll be able to fix it in our driver ;-)

GWater


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JoJo jojo

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Mar 18, 2008, 12:59:22 AM3/18/08
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Hi diskin

looks like your whitebalance settings are not proper in gspca,
you can try reverse engineering from windows driver & adding that to
gspca or microdia driver.(gspca would probably be easier)

basically the difference between sniffUSB logs & usbmon logs will give
you whats is missing/mismatching.

take a look here
https://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web

sorry we couldn't reply sooner, we don't mind you asking again.

-JoJo

dda

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Mar 18, 2008, 5:36:20 AM3/18/08
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Hello,

Thanks all for replying. I will definitely compare sniffUSB logs &
usbmon logs and get bak to you. But I had a hope to try something
already built -- do I understand right that my cameras are not
supported by microdia driver? Where it is anyway, I did not find
anything on the web pages (https://groups.google.com/group/microdia/
web)

Regards,
Dmitry.

On Mar 18, 7:59 am, "JoJo jojo" <onetwoj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi diskin
>
> looks like your whitebalance settings are not proper in gspca,
> you can try reverse engineering from windows driver & adding that to
> gspca or microdia driver.(gspca would probably be easier)
>
> basically the difference between sniffUSB logs & usbmon logs will give
> you whats is missing/mismatching.
>
> take a look herehttps://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web

GWater

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Mar 18, 2008, 5:43:20 AM3/18/08
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Hi dda,
the current source is here:
http://repo.or.cz/r/microdia.git

File microdia-dev.c contains all webcam specific functions. If there are
functions like microdia_6007_init() in this file then there is already
someone working on supprt for this cam (in tis case 0c45:6007).
Nvertheless - to find out what's really going (for example what sets the
whitebalance) on we need to compare logs and things lke that - so make
yourself familiar with everything and you ca be pretty sure there will
be support for your cam.

BTW there are full datasheets for the sn9c102 chip out there - simply
google "sn9c102 filtype:pdf".

GWater


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