Bug 505241

Summary: Problem with uvcvideo on Vaio
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Amir Hedayaty <hedayaty>
Component: kernelAssignee: Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Amir Hedayaty 2009-06-11 06:53:07 UTC
Description of problem:

The old r5u870 driver (for vaio laptops) is not maintained and is not 
compilable on 2.6.29. uvcvudeo driver works fine on 640x480 res. but not 
on other resolutions. This uvcvideo has a better quality than the drivers. But 320x240 res. is more common. Skype and empathy all use 320x240.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run cheese
2. change resolution to 320x240 or 160x120
  
Actual results:
wired output 

Expected results:
a fine picture

Additional info:

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Comment 2 Amir Hedayaty 2010-04-28 15:09:45 UTC
It was a long bug, and still exists on latest fedora 13 Beta

Comment 3 Amir Hedayaty 2010-06-18 03:22:23 UTC
Finally with the latest kernel update uvcvideo seems to be acted fine.
I guess if firmware is installed by default the webcams should work out of the box.

This bug can almost be closed.

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2010-06-18 06:56:33 UTC
Unfortunately the firmware needed for the r5u870 cameras does not meet the licensing guidelines for Fedora, so it cannot be distributed as part of Fedora.

Work is underway to create a package of it in the rpmfusion repository, see:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794