Ricoh webcam driver missing 05ca:183a

[tgpraveen]

I have a Sony Vaio and my built in webcam doesnt work due to missing driver.
The lsusb information is
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:183a Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC7 [R5U870]

Now on some forums people have said that in gutsy kernel it works.

I have tried with jaunty and karmic and it doesnt work. So it is a REGRESSION.

Please this is a somewhat old webcam whose drivers were once there and worked. PLEASE fix this.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 3002 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc300000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9872AK'
   Components : 'HDA:83847662,104d1e00,00100201 HDA:14f12c06,104d1700,00100000'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 8
Date: Sun Oct 25 09:29:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-SZ79GN_C
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.24
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 12/19/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R0121S5
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR0121S5:bd12/19/2007:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-SZ79GN_C:pvrJ0034QDZ:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-SZ79GN_C
dmi.product.version: J0034QDZ
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation

[superlex (e-lex)]

Hi!
You can find driver you need here:
http://www.palmix.org/download/r5u870_k2.6.30_i386.tar.bz2

Then, there is this repository:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~intuitivenipple/+archive/ppa
but it yet to be updated to Karmic

[tgpraveen (tgpraveen89)]

thanks for replying. but i am on karmic and as u said the ppa doesnt work here.

If the fix is available so easily do you know why it is not in karmic?

would really be happy if this at the least makes it into lucid.

[superlex (e-lex)]

I will ask the author of the repository to upload the package that I have previously linked; otherwise, I'll upload it myself.
About Lucid, I hope that the author of the driver update it, but I found that interesting developments are being made about the uvcvideo module for the support of our webcams.

[Daniel Castro (castromd)]

Hi!

Is the above PPA repository still valid?
What package should I install to enable this camera to work?

Thanks!

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi tgpraveen,

If you could also please 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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[Jan (jan-timo-henrich-deactivatedaccount)]

This is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release (lucid/64 with the latest updates):

Jul 30 17:44:32 jan-vaio-vgn-tz31-vn kernel: [ 33.628213] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (05ca:183a)
Jul 30 17:44:32 jan-vaio-vgn-tz31-vn kernel: [ 33.640293] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
Jul 30 17:44:32 jan-vaio-vgn-tz31-vn kernel: [ 33.640543] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
Jul 30 17:44:32 jan-vaio-vgn-tz31-vn kernel: [ 33.640603] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
Jul 30 17:44:32 jan-vaio-vgn-tz31-vn kernel: [ 33.640768] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
Jul 30 17:44:32 jan-vaio-vgn-tz31-vn kernel: [ 33.641451] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)

As a workaround try this:

       open a terminal

        $ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libusb-dev build-essential gcc automake mercurial
 $ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
 $ cd r5u87x
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
 $ sudo r5u87x-loader --reload

 The loader will automatically be run on boot when it detects your webcam.

[Jan (jan-timo-henrich-deactivatedaccount)]

related link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9658270#post9658270

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.