[meta-freescale] Nitrogen6x w/ OV5642

[Sébastien Taylor]

Turns out the connector wasn't soldered on very well, a few of the leads didn't have good contact.

On 2013-05-23, at 12:48 PM, Sébastien Taylor <me at staylor.ca> wrote:

> I did previously have the module working in Yocto when I first setup the fsl-image-test.  I then spent a few days customizing a custom layer and porting our applications and when I returned to do more testing is when the camera was no longer working.  It does seem like it's a connection issue though I'm so far not having much luck on that front, but I did capture these logs showing the ov5642_probe failing (extended the debug log slightly).
> 
> But it would seem the problem is on my end.
> 
> ov5642_probe
> camera_reset: power_gp=0x6, reset_gp=0x8 reset_gp2=0xab
> mx6_csi0_powerdown: powerdown=0, power_gp=0x6
> ov5642_read_reg: write reg error: reg=300a err=-5
> ov5642_probe:cannot find camera retval -1 chip_id_high 0x0
> ov5642_read_reg: write reg error: reg=300b err=-5
> ov5642_probe:cannot find camera retval -1 chip_id_low 0x0
> mx6_csi0_powerdown: powerdown=1, power_gp=0x6
> 
> 
> On 2013-05-22, at 6:02 PM, Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sébastien,
>> 
>> Is this the first time you've used the module?
>> 
>> If so, I suspect a cabling issue. The flex connectors can
>> be a pain to get right the first time:
>> 
>> Theres a photo here of how the cables should be connected
>> to Nitrogen6X (i.e. blue side up):
>> 	http://boundarydevices.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Camera-to-6X-Small.jpg
>> 
>> I'll try to get a Dylan image built, but that may bleed into
>> next week, since I'm taking a few days off.
>> 
>> Please advise,
>> 
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> On 05/22/2013 04:56 PM, Sébastien Taylor wrote:
>>> MFW_GST_V4LSRC_PLUGIN 3.0.5 build on May 21 2013 14:49:13.
>>> 
>>> Running gst-launch with DEBUG=*:3 shows that the failure is caused by being unable to open /dev/video0 though the device is there.
>>> 
>>> On 2013-05-22, at 5:01 PM, Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Sébastien,
>>>> 
>>>> On 05/22/2013 03:43 PM, Sébastien Taylor wrote:
>>>>> I'm on the Dylan branch and I've tried withboth the default
>>>>> linux-boundary kernel as well as updating the .bb to use
>>>>> the latest 1.1.1 branch from boundary.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looks like I'll have to dig a little deeper to see what's causing
>>>>> mfw_v4lsrc to fail (mfw_v4lsink works fine with a videotestsrc).
>>>>> 
>>>> Can you check the version of the gstreamer plugins?
>>>> 
>>>> 	root at nitrogen6x# gst-inspect mfw_v4lsrc | head -n 1
>>>> 
>>>> Our 1.1.1 branch is confirmed to work with the 3.0.5 package,
>>>> but I haven't yet pushed a kernel matching the 4.0.0. BSP
>>>> release (I'm hoping to do some clean up along the way).
>>>> 
>>>> Please advise,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Eric
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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