On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Jon Corbet's been working on the XO-1.5 camera driver for us, and while > doing so he found a V4L2 bug which is probably one of the reasons that > we're having problems with XO-1 camera on all post-8.2 builds. > > The workaround is to build the sensor driver into the kernel, and the > camera driver as a module. > > I've made the equivalent change for the kernel that has been built here: > > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/f11-xo1/kernel-2.6.31_xo1-20091211.1834.1.olpc.813348c.i586.rpm > > Untested, just wanted to get the word out. > > Note that you may have to load the camera driver (cafe_ccic) manually, > if it doesn't automatically get loaded. > > Word is going round that on a SoaS build for XO (which uses something > close to OLPC's 2.6.30 kernel, I think), someone recently managed to > capture a photo from the command line. > > If someone is up for a small task, it would be good to start changing > these "words going round" to some actual solid information. Anyone want > to head up these efforts and to start > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reviving_XO1_camera ? > At the very least it would be nice to have some solid documentation on > where the problem is (and isn't). Is it in ov7670, cafe_ccic, v4l2, > gstreamer, xf86-video-geode, or..? How can you tell? Does the above > kernel help? What's the exact command you can use on F12 SoasXO to take > a photo? What's the corresponding error if you do that on F11? etc.
I got it working just fine on SoaS beta 4 build for the XO using a gstreamer pipeline. I was taking .png still images with out issue. Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel