Bought a rare webcam, which doesn't work in Linux, and would appreciate some pointers of how to fix that.
1) Is someone already working on this (camera information at the bottom) 2) Where should I begin? My gut feeling is to go for media/video/gspca/ov519.c, since it has the code for talking to the USB bridge chip (BRIDGE_OVFX2), and since that code is so neat. If the patches needed to get it working turns out to be non-estetic, one would have to consider alternatives. I also noticed that there is some code at media/video/mt9t031.c for talking with my sensor (but it suggests it can't be used outside of the soc-camera framework (I've never heard of it before), and I don't know if those parts of the source would be relevant anyway. 3) Is there a recommended distribution (or kernel revision) when working against the latest driver sources, or can I just pull the latest sources from git and expect it to play nicely with something like ubuntu in my case. ----[Hardware information]---- * 3.0MP USB2.0 Digital USB c-mount Camera for Microscopes * VID:PID 1578:0076 * USB bridge CY7C68013A (aka Cypress FX2LP) * Sensor: most probably an MT9T031. It responds to the same I2C address, and when I injected I2C reads to the sensors register 0x00 and 0xFF, I get the 0x1621 response which matches “chip version” according to the datasheet. BR /Simon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
