Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Record support external cameras
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Tch, do yoou have any usb camera to test this? Not at the moment, but I borrow one on the weekend. Gonzalo On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:57 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:03:11AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: There are more drivers for different cameras? Any way to know what are the camera drivers? (or the usb camera drivers) Yes, there are many more drivers disabled. At OLPC we chose to enable the drivers that are needed, and leave deployments to enable other drivers. This was to shrink filesystem; very important on XO-1 and early XO-1.5, but not important now for XO-1.75 and XO-4. No, there's no way to find out what drivers are needed, except by audit or survey of all users. You might compare /boot/config* between Fedora and OLPC kernel, and add whatever Fedora has enabled. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Record support external cameras
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:00:46PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: In particular in the XO, with the camera I have for testing, no device is created, then I can't test it. When I connect the camera, in /var/log/message I see: kernel: usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0561 kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 kernel: usb 1-2: Product: Generic Digital camera kernel: usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd. kernel: gspca_main: spca561-2.14.0 probing 04fc:0561 gspca_main kernel module is needed, and is in the kernel. gspca_spca561 kernel module is needed, but is not in the kernel. Edit defconfig, search for CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_SPCA561, set =m, and rebuild kernel. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building#Building_a_kernel_RPM If we can solve the device creation, we can make Record smarter monitoring the directory /sys/class/video4linux and adding the switch camera button if a new camera appear. Also, I think system D-Bus message can appear on insert event. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Record support external cameras
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:03:11AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: There are more drivers for different cameras? Any way to know what are the camera drivers? (or the usb camera drivers) Yes, there are many more drivers disabled. At OLPC we chose to enable the drivers that are needed, and leave deployments to enable other drivers. This was to shrink filesystem; very important on XO-1 and early XO-1.5, but not important now for XO-1.75 and XO-4. No, there's no way to find out what drivers are needed, except by audit or survey of all users. You might compare /boot/config* between Fedora and OLPC kernel, and add whatever Fedora has enabled. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Record support external cameras
There are more drivers for different cameras? Any way to know what are the camera drivers? (or the usb camera drivers) Gonzalo On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:55 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:00:46PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: In particular in the XO, with the camera I have for testing, no device is created, then I can't test it. When I connect the camera, in /var/log/message I see: kernel: usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0561 kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 kernel: usb 1-2: Product: Generic Digital camera kernel: usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd. kernel: gspca_main: spca561-2.14.0 probing 04fc:0561 gspca_main kernel module is needed, and is in the kernel. gspca_spca561 kernel module is needed, but is not in the kernel. Edit defconfig, search for CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_SPCA561, set =m, and rebuild kernel. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building#Building_a_kernel_RPM If we can solve the device creation, we can make Record smarter monitoring the directory /sys/class/video4linux and adding the switch camera button if a new camera appear. Also, I think system D-Bus message can appear on insert event. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
