On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 17:23 -0800, James Cornell wrote: > Pascal Kreyer wrote: > > I ask yesterday night Sony for more informations about this integrated > > webcam but this no news. > > > > I will send a post if more news are available from Sony side. > > > > Regards, > > > > Pascal > > > > James Cornell wrote: > >> vineet kumar wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> I got my new Sony vaio fz27g . > >>> Is the built-in motion eye webcam supported on Solaris (I am using SXCE > >>> build 75)? > >>> > >>> If yes how do I get it working? > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Vineet > >>> > >>> > >>> This message posted from opensolaris.org > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> laptop-discuss mailing list > >>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >>> > >>> > >> Probably not. Internal webcams are always closed, you'd need some sort > >> of HAL (Firmware). If you can find out what chipset and vendor it uses, > >> maybe eventually support will come. > >> > >> James > >> _______________________________________________ > >> laptop-discuss mailing list > >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> > Sorry to be pessimist but they're not gonna tell you anything unless you > are an OEM. I've studied how these corporations act, they won't even > tell you what 3rd party vendors they use unless you carve apart their > machines and run questionable diagnostics against their software. > > Good luck though, you'll need it. :-( > > James
Most of the Sony VAIO laptops use the Ricoh R5U870 controller, and they can be identified by the USB vendor/product IDs (05ca:18xx). There are many different configurations, and they all need firmware blobs (extracted from the Windows drivers) to be uploaded before they can operate. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6586592 is an existing RFE for the firmware upload feature. The good thing is that after loading the appropriate microcode, most newer cameras will use the UVC protocol (which Solaris already has a driver for -- most "Vista certified" webcams are also UVC-compliant). (I have an older VAIO SZ so mine is non-UVC compliant.) For more information, see: http://web.archive.org/web/20070810221634/http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/ There is a Linux driver (which that page was created for) which supports all of the different variants. It may be worth asking Sam Revitch and the other authors of this driver for help. -Albert
