Timeline for Original Raspberry Pi and NoIR Camera compatibility
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| Nov 10, 2016 at 15:19 | comment | added | NormVA | I was careful seating the cable and have done it a couple of times because I tried the camera on two different RPs. I am familiar with these connectors -- they are similar to the ribbon cable connectors used on laptop motherboards that i work on in my computer repair business. | |
| Nov 10, 2016 at 14:56 | comment | added | goldilocks♦ | I have an 8 mp Noir camera and some 2011 B's, I'll check this sometime today, but I think Dave Jones is right, it should just work. Getting that cable seated properly the first time can be a bit finicky though, I'm sure the first time I plugged a camera in it did not work because of that. | |
| Nov 10, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | NormVA | I just checked the /boot/config file and start_x=1 and gpu_mem=128 are included in the file. I sure hope that it is a not a bad camera. I bought it on eBay, It is new, but I am sure that return would be a hassle. @goldilocks Got caught by the 5 minute edit rule. | |
| Nov 10, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | NormVA | I just checked the /boot/config file and start_x=1 and gpu_mem=128 are included in the file. | |
| Nov 10, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | Dave Jones |
start_x=1 causes the Pi's boot sequence to load /boot/start_x.elf (which is the firmware including the camera's GPU-based ISP) instead of the regular firmware in /boot/start.elf. The reason for the separation (I suspect) is that the camera firmware fails to load with small GPU memory splits (e.g. 16Mb); in this case the boot sequence silently falls back to the regular firmware. Why the _x suffix? Err... no idea, you'd need to ask the firmware devs :)
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| Nov 10, 2016 at 14:16 | answer | added | Dave Jones | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 20:30 | comment | added | goldilocks♦ |
Did you run raspi-config and add the camera? It adds a few necessary things to /boot/config.txt: gpu_mem=128 (the minimum for the camera to work) and start_x=1 (absurdly undesciptive and also undocumented, but presumably something to do with the camera port, since that's the only thing I've seen it related to).
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| Nov 9, 2016 at 20:02 | history | asked | NormVA | CC BY-SA 3.0 |