On Friday 22 February 2008, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Felix Möller wrote: > > Hi, > > > >>>>> What's interesting (for me) is that I have an iSight too (MacBookPro > >>>>> mid-2007), but the camera is (05ac:8502). And it works with uvc, > >>>>> while yours not. And grep 850 ~/linux-uvc prints only *yours* > >>>>> (8501): > >>>> > >>>> Could you please post the output of lsusb -d 05ac:8502 -v (using > >>>> usbutils 0.72 or newer, go for the latest version if possible) ? > >>> > >>> This seems to be interesting. I have attached lsusb and dmesg of the > >>> device one time with firmware loaded and another with no firmware > >>> loaded. Both are attached. > >> > >> I'm pretty sure there was a firmware loaded in your iSight when you > >> grabbed the kernel log and lsusb output. As a wild guess, did you boot > >> MacOS X and reboot into Linux ? > > > > Yes you are correct yesterday I had OS X running and rebooted into Linux. > > Hi, > > It's a question I have aways asked myself: I did not installed any > firmware (isight-firmware and so on). But my camera works! > > I imagine that this is because: > - either I installed linux-uvc-source from debian > - or, more probable, I used a messenger from OSX, and this has loaded > the firmware inside the camera, so it is not necessary anymore to load > it from linux <-- this is what you say in the previous message, isn't it?
The camera has no flash memory to hold the firmware when you power your computer off. If it works when you cold boot your computer into Linux, you probably have the iSight firmware loader installed by Debian. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
