JeroenJ Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Hi, I'm having problems to make my webcam (Motion Eye) working ony VAIO laptop, I've tried macam, and it recognises my webcam. But as soon as I press play, it gives me an "USB Connection Error".. I have no clue what to do, searched the forums but didn't find anything, somebody posted about this problem in the OSX86 section, but there they said he would be better off here... Didn't see that post here, so I created a new one Let's hope any of you guys can help me out with this! It would be cool to have my cam working Thanks in advance JJ, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott6649 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Any luck on this one? Anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myzrael Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 It's currently not working and acccording to maccam it won't be any time soon. There is no documentation for that camera available at all so we're out of luck basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsc Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Ricoh R5U870 Webcam Driver for Linux http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/ Linux Driver http://lsb.blogdns.net/files/r5u870-0.10.0.tgz R5U870 http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/usb/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenJ Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 Ricoh R5U870 Webcam Driver for Linuxhttp://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/ Linux Driver http://lsb.blogdns.net/files/r5u870-0.10.0.tgz R5U870 http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/usb/index.html That's interesting! This could be used to convert or create an OSX driver from it I'm not enough knowledged on this side, but I might try to learn some stuff. But first things first: as long as my LCD isn't working, I'm not starting to search a solution for this (since not one vaio user has his internal lcd working with an nvidia card) if somebody made something and want somebody to test you can always let me know JJ, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsux Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 The only way I can get my built in webcam to work is to first boot into windows and then restart and boot into leopard. If I just cold boot into leopard it won't work. I have a sony vaio vgn-fe880e tri booting vista, fedora 8, and leopard. Everything works great except for the 3945 wifi card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alde85 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Hi, I have a Vaio VGN-FZ18M and my WebCam work fine with Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 & EFI v8 mbr. Windows Vista detail of my hardware is: Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC4 USB\VID_05CA&PID_1837&REV_0100&MI_00 ...i don't know if it is the same of the yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proprogrammer676 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 hi I have a Sony vaio vgn-fe855e and my motion eye worked natively after I installed kalyway Leo with Efi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fintoingegnere Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Hi Guys, i have Leopard 10.5.2 (iatkos) single boot on a Vaio TZ17 and the webcam never worked... i looked around a long time trying to find a working driven but then I realized that the issue is not with the driver itself but with the camera microcode. apparently the Ricoh webcam needs to be initialized uploading a microcode (firmware) before the driver can hook to it. The Debiam driver is doing so when the kernel module is mounted so to confirm my theory I installed an Ubuntu virtual machine with the proper drivers and after running it my leopard can see the camera natively! now... what we need is a microcode uploader... i have the webcam firmware (found in the linux driver source package) but i can't find any firmware uploader for mac! any idea? this would solve everyone's issue and could be automated with a startup script. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhoomz Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 hey can u give like instruction on how u got webcam working?... I have ricon on dv9207... but some people say it works for them out of the box... it has been only showing black for me... because as u said it would not initialize... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 hey can u give like instruction on how u got webcam working?... I have ricon on dv9207... but some people say it works for them out of the box... it has been only showing black for me... because as u said it would not initialize... Dhoomz you might wanna look at my topic. There is a chance the solution I found might get yours working. It has to do with the {censored} as UVC driver that Leopard includes. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=100897 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhoomz Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 thx diabolic... i will try it tonight, but the thing is that... I have ricoh... I am dual booting vista and I know I have the ricoh wecam mentioned by fintoingegnere.. I will try to use ur trick however cuz the problem seems to be the same... the webcam just doesnt initialize... because I know in vista too, quickplay has to intitialize the webcam first and after it turns it on, it can use it... let u know the results tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhoomz Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 @ diabolic... thx ma, but it says no video from source... every program detects my webcam as USb webcam... but cannot initialize it... as in it cannot turn it on to use it... oh and also for more info, i have ricoh R5U870 webcam... I know the usb webcam that mac detects is my webcam because vista treats it as a usb webcam as well... It doesnt even work when i do select user picture... all programs so far including iChat detect it though and try to use it without any luck :-/... @ fintoingegnere... can u tell us how it worked with virtual ubuntu... did u use parallels?... im quite familiar with ubuntu... and I have gotten my webcam to work on real ubuntu before i installed kalyway.... I have an hp dv9207 laptop and someone on this forum said the webcam worked out of the box for them :-/... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoburtu Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 What about camera Ricoh in Sony Vaio with Leopard 10.5.5?. Is there any solution for your correct detection?. My model is Sony Vaio VGN-SZ2XP/C. My vendor and product of camera is: 1830:05ca Best regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSmith Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 anyone got any more info on this??? i've got a ricoh inbuilt usb camera on my vaio VGN-fj1z. macam detects it and everything, as does webcam moniter, but not actual feed. any more suggestions??? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfu Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 List of Vendor ID's and Product ID's * 05ca:1810 HP Pavilion Webcam - UVC * 05ca:1830 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 (for VAIO SZ) * 05ca:1832 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC3 (for VAIO UX) * 05ca:1833 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 (for VAIO AR1) * 05ca:1834 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 (for VAIO AR2) * 05ca:1835 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC5 (for VAIO SZ) * 05ca:1836 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC4 (for VAIO FE) * 05ca:1837 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC4 (for VAIO FZ) * 05ca:1839 Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6 (for VAIO CR) * 05ca:183a Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC7 (for VAIO SZ) * 05ca:183b Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC8 (for VAIO FZ) * 05ca:1870 HP Pavilion Webcam / HP Webcam 1000 http://www.palmix.org/r5u870-en.html http://avilella.googlepages.com/camera_notes The cam needs to preload its firmware, to initialize to work. This post is interesting about our Motion Eye webcams VGC-VCC7 Camera HACK, How to get VGC-VCC Camera to work Is there any hacker that can port these linux drivers to OSX please ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argotera Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 hi, i just wanted to add for the record the webcam info for Vaio FW series. it's 05ca:183D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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