em28xx-new should be added to repository

[Amitai Bar]

Hi
the em28xx-new should be added to the repository or at least be replaced.
the new em28xx is an open source driver (otherwise i wouldn't be able to compile it on my machine) and I think that the driver should come out of the box.
The current driver is an old one that does not support DVB. it supports analog only.
You can find debs on this forum:
http://translate.google.co.il/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php%3Fpid%3D3090175&ei=EfwPS_fwIpKH_AaOrPiuBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dubuntu%2Bkarmic%2B330e%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:official%26sa%3DG
Thanks
Amitai

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Amitai,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 489353

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Amitai Bar (amitaibar)]

Yes it is still an issue.
There is a driver for em28xx which now does not work at all.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeremy Foshee
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi Amitai,
>
> This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it
> recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the
> latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .
>
> If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal
> (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and
> attach updated debug information to this report.
>
> apport-collect -p linux 489353
>
> Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be
> great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue.
> Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've
> tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag.
> This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag
> located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the
> 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> [This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you
> inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]
>
>
> ** Tags added: needs-kernel-logs
>
> ** Tags added: needs-upstream-testing
>
> ** Tags added: kj-triage
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> em28xx-new should be added to repository
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[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

@amitai,

We are carrying what is upstream. The upstream version we are carrying is a smallish delta from what is currently in the V4L project. I'm assuming that means they have not upstreamed their latest changes. You should work with them to get their changes upstream if there are featuers in it that you need.

[robbie (roberto-tomas-cuentas)]

@Brat Figg

what does upstream mean? The em28xx-new driver set is so old I find references to it on ubuntu forums from 2007

[robbie (roberto-tomas-cuentas)]

here's a patch that *appears* to apply the whole em28xx-new to the v4l standard em28xx drivers:
http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/24859-adding-empia-base-driver.html

not sure how to build that to be honest .. I tried patching it in the source and making but it skipped the directory it creates

[robbie (roberto-tomas-cuentas)]

there's a whole set of patches that could be applied from that guy: http://marc.info/?a=114109916300029&r=1&w=2

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

robbie,
    What Brad means is that we only pull in what is available from kernel.org. If the updates to the drivers are not there, then we have no way to get them. Someone would need to work with the driver developer to ensure that they got their fixes added to the upstream stable kernel so that they could be pulled into Ubuntu in updates.

Thanks!

~JFo

[MF (mmuruev)]

Have problem with this device. In my laptop webcam detec as em28XX, in win it's em2750. In linux I haven't picture from camera in any programm any distro. Now use 10.10 ubuntu.
dmesg | grep em28
[ 32.345081] em28xx: New device @ 480 Mbps (eb1a:2750, interface 0, class 0)
[ 32.345720] em28xx #0: chip ID is em2750
[ 33.808831] em28xx #0: board has no eeprom
[ 33.822733] em28xx #0: Identified as EM2710/EM2750/EM2751 webcam grabber (card=22)
[ 33.822913] em28xx #0: Config register raw data: 0x00
[ 33.822918] em28xx #0: v4l2 driver version 0.1.2
[ 34.368150] em28xx #0: V4L2 video device registered as video0
[ 34.368192] usbcore: registered new interface driver em28xx
[ 34.368195] em28xx driver loaded

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Amitai Bar, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available (not the daily folder) following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.13-rc3

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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