camera fail

Bobby Powers bobbypowers at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 19:15:41 UTC 2009


Did you ever have the camera working on the machine?  If an image
doesn't come up in the openfirmware test, it sounds like you're pretty
hosed (and I don't see how installing Ubuntu could affect this).

Bobby

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis
<mavrothal at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I know this is not a question for this list but since most of the people have something to do with XO-1 are here, I will.
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> In an XO-1 self set I get:
> camera pc at 2
> self test failed return code=-1
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> Indeed the camera light comes on but no image either in OFW or under linux. Reseted the EC and reinstalled firmware q2e41. No change.
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> Of course it could be just a hardware failure :(
> But what intrigues me is that I noticed the failure just after I had booted from the DScard (Ubuntu) and was unpacking an initrd.gz (cpio -i). I got the usual permission denied in dev/device creation step and then went on.
> Rebooting after that to f11/os7 from the NAND it failed at the loading the initrd.img step. This triggered the hardware test, where the camera problem was detected.
> Everything else was OK,however booting kept failing.
> Removing the SDcard allowed booting from the NAND!
> After disassembling the XO to see for any obvious problems, reassembling, flashing the FW etc. it boots OK from the NAND and the SDcard but no camera.
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> Since I think that I remember having seen somewhere that the SDslot and the camera are somehow related, I'm hopping that the camera problem might be a software/firmware problem that could be fixed.
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> I would be grateful for any suggestions
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> If not, I guess I will not be testing camera function when is finally working in F11-XO1... (That's the connection with this list :-)
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