Bug 155665

Summary:	sonypi driver fails to load after Sony Super SteadyShot plugged into USB
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Thomas Gagne <tgagne>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Thomas Gagne 2006-03-07 02:41:14 UTC

I plugged my Sony Super Steadyshot (DCR-HC21)into the USB port hoping to use xawtv, vlc, or other of the video tools.

/var/log/messages reported:
Mar  6 20:36:25 tgagne kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Mar  6 20:36:26 tgagne kernel: usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio
Mar  6 20:36:43 tgagne kernel: mtrr: 0x98000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0x98000000,0x400000
Mar  6 20:37:00 tgagne modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.ko): No such device

Some information on the system:
tgagne:/home/tgagne # rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-default-2.6.13-15.8
kernel-syms-2.6.13-15.8
kernel-source-2.6.13-15.8
kernel-docs-2.6.13-15
kernel-default-nongpl-2.6.13-15.8
kernel-update-tool-0.9-10
tgagne:/home/tgagne # uname -a
Linux tgagne 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Just to see if I was seeing things I tried inserting the module by hand:
tgagne:/home/tgagne # modprobe sonypi   
FATAL: Error inserting sonypi (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.ko): No such device
tgagne:/home/tgagne # ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.ko
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 27592 Feb  7 11:19 /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.ko

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-08 14:47:54 UTC

What kind of device is that? Looks like a DV-cam to me. Are you sure this device is supported by this driver? How would you want to use xawtv for this camera? If you want to transfer data to your PC, you should attach it with the firewire cable or the analog cable to use with xawtv.

Comment 2 Thomas Gagne 2006-03-08 16:18:49 UTC

It is a DV-cam.  My next thing-to-do is to try connecting it to the firewire port instead of the USB.

I can't say for sure sonypi.ko is supposed to work with the camcorder.  I assumed it was since after plugging-in the the camera to the USB port SuSE recognized it but threw the MTRR error, which I'm fairy sure is a bad thing, no?

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-03-09 14:20:06 UTC

I cannot impress so, can you use the USB-Port for this cam with Windows in that fashion? The output of `modinfo sonypi' tells me this module is used for special event-keys in sony notebooks, this has nothing to do with a DV-Cam.

Olaf: Is there any chance a dv-cam could be supported in that fashion I don't know about?

Comment 4 Olaf Hering 2006-03-09 14:23:08 UTC

please attach the hwinfo output when the system is in that state.

Comment 5 Thomas Gagne 2006-03-09 18:25:15 UTC

We should close this as invalid.  The maintaner of sonypi contacted me to say it wasn't designed for DV cams, and the best way to do those is with firewires.