We want to extend the list of owners of the SZ series laptop interested in having the Ricoh webcam workingv under Linux. We are about to send a request letter to Ricoh. Please send an email to avilella(gmail) and you will receive a draft of the letter to confirm signatories.
** Summary changed: - Sonypi motioneye camera not recognized + Ricoh RY5U870-VW001 camera specs ** Description changed: - This may be a long shot, but the maybe something can be done to get the - integrated video camera to work. + Ricoh is using the "Ricoh Original Driver", which means that we should + contact Ricoh about the Linux support. - sonypi doesn't recognize the motioneye camera by default: + Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 - [4294702.453000] sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driverv1.26. - [4294702.454000] sonypi: detected type2 model, verbose = 0, fnkeyinit = off, camera = off, compat = off, mask = 0xffffffff, useinput = on, acpi = on - [4294702.454000] sonypi: enabled at irq=11, port1=0x1080, port2=0x1084 - [4294702.454000] sonypi: device allocated minor is 61 + The manufacturer is Ricoh: Vendor ID: 0x05ca Product ID: 0x1830 - Although apparently it should be doable, via motioneye (via sonypi): - http://popies.net/meye/ + The microphone by the camera works (small hole at the left of the + lenses), so you can use it normally, but the camera is going to be more + difficult to get to work. - This is a USB Micro Vision camera. Attached are the details from the inf - Windows driver file. + The device is one of these products: + + http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/usb/5u870_v001/ + + http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/usb/5u870_v002/ ** Tags added: camera ricoh specs -- Ricoh RY5U870-VW001 camera specs https://launchpad.net/bugs/39307 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
