Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

[John Watlington]

Take a look at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ 
XO_Troubleshooting_AV#Errors_communicating_with_the_camera

The majority of these problems are due to a latch on the flex cable  
connector coming loose.
If you disassemble the laptop, and find that it was due to another  
source, pleased either
add it to the guide or let me know.

Cheers,
wad

On Jul 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:

> On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:40, Bobby Powers wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
>> <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>> Works quite well here in a MP with last joyride. Just did some light
>>> testing, though.
>>
>> I've also tested it (lightly) on 3 machines running Joyride ~2170.
>>
>>> Tomeu
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Walter Bender  
>>> <walter.bender at gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Not good news. I don't recall that anything should have changed
>>>> between B4 and the C series that would have impacted Record. I'll
>>>> have
>>>> to check it out on more machines...
>>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Gary C Martin
>>>> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 19 Jul 2008, at 00:18, Walter Bender wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> (Now that we have a reasonably stable joyride-with a working
>>>>>> Record
>>>>>> activity again-I'll try to get a quick user study pulled
>>>>>> together in
>>>>>> Peru on this topic by someone less bias than myself.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm, not convinced Record-55 is working well enough yet
>>>>> (Joyride-2174),
>>>>> unless it's just failing on my B4 hardware. I get everything from
>>>>> a black
>>>>> feed, to a green/purple stripy feed. Not managed to actually
>>>>> record anything
>>>>> with it yet. Doesn't seem to help launching Record first after a
>>>>> reboot and
>>>>> with no other activities (think that was one of the open bugs).
>>
>> just did that (boot then launch record) and it worked alright for me
>> (on a MP machine).
>>
>> bobby
>
> Thanks for all the feedback.
>
> OK, after a lot of testing and looking through logs I finally
> accidently stumbled on the problem. It seems to be a HW fault on my
> B4. Perhaps a dry solder joint, cracked pcb or camera component not
> seated correctly. If I squeeze the right side of the screen, just
> below the camera lense, Record-55 starts displaying the video image,
> sometimes blank, sometimes green/purple, sometimes back to normal.
> Managed to successfully recorded a video clip while the image was  
> good.
>
> I'm reasonably handy with a soldering iron so I'll open up the unit
> and see if I can see the specific cause. Is there a specific place I
> should report this HW issue incase it is more than single an unlucky
> occurrence?
>
> --Gary
>
>
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