BisonCam ( ALi M5603C ) Linux driver round up

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I have written this as a round up on my search for a Linux driver for the built-in webcam in my Asus A3N series notebook. The built-in webcam in my book is built on a micro chip from Ali and it is named m5603c, more in general the chip is sometimes refered to as m560x. I found that this m560x chip is used in a lot of different devices and even other notebooks like the Asus A6 series.

Right now – it seems that there are a few projects focusing on creating a driver for m560x chip, currently I have noticed these ones.

SANE m5603c backend
Ali M560x Linux Driver Project
ALi USB2 M5603C Video Camera Controller – Seems stalled

Until now I have assembled this list of devices that are build upon the m560x chip.

Please leave a comment – if you know a device or driver project not listed here

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Laxminarayan Kamath said,

January 25, 2006 @ 13:12

http://www.s-media.co.in/products/x910.htm uses the chipset .
yme said,

February 19, 2006 @ 13:52

The Asus A6k series uses Bisoncam, rated to 1.3 megapixels, but only when used in combination with the software interpolation app, on windows. otherwise it’s limited to 0.3megapixels
Kristofer said,

February 21, 2006 @ 17:52

The zepto znote 2314w uses that cam too
Guus Sliepen said,

February 24, 2006 @ 12:19

My Targa Traveller 856W notebook has a built-in webcam that uses this chip. The words “1.3 MEGA PIXEL” are printed next to it.
Stefan Huber said,

March 18, 2006 @ 18:23

My notebook Asus 3827 NLP has built in this webcam too.
Alberto Federico Turelli said,

April 6, 2006 @ 18:05

Also my Asus Z92J notebook ships with this built-in webcam. Stay tuned on http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe for info about using this webcam in a GNU/Linux system
Riccard Covino said,

April 20, 2006 @ 10:21

Also my Asus A7VB uses that camera
Ruben said,

May 2, 2006 @ 15:35

It seems that the
odell green said,

May 10, 2006 @ 2:53

My Sager 9860 uses it.
giulian said,

May 15, 2006 @ 19:15

Hi,
also my asus z9200GA with the integrated BisonCam (top of the screen) uses it|
Vany Serzhkin said,

June 20, 2006 @ 12:42

roverbook Z550
BisonCam USB2.0
But under FreeBSD there also some problems with usb2.0
Problems with usb and acpi button almost fixed, but FreeBSD have no internal interface for cameras.
kurt said,

July 3, 2006 @ 13:50

i bouth a web camera which needs the driver ali m5603c i receive a cd dor installation when i bought the camera however windowx xp cannot install this driver can you help me? thanks kurt
kmARC said,

July 11, 2006 @ 10:38

I have also such a webcam:

kmarc@gilgamesh:~$ lsusb | grep ALi
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.

CLEVO M555N, BisonCam, USB2.0
Phoenix said,

July 16, 2006 @ 2:55

The same camera is used in the Eurocom D900T Phantom desktop replacement. http://web.eurocom.com/EC/ec_model_config1(1,123,0)
John Andrewartha said,

July 20, 2006 @ 15:23

The Asus A3000 also has the ALI M5603c.
Am trying to make it work under FreeBSD 6.1
Need to make changes in usbdevices source.
Toby said,

July 26, 2006 @ 12:47

Thanks for the info, but what’s the thing with the ALi USB2 M5603C Video Camera Controller project? It does’t seem to mention to M560x chip set?

Did I miss something?

ta
Peter Chubb said,

July 28, 2006 @ 3:29

The new MSI 1036 also uses the M5602 chipset.
RICARDO said,

August 21, 2006 @ 22:35

MY ASUS pw201 20 .1 inch monitor uses this inbuilt webcam too 1.3 megapixel driver needed for both windows and linux
TheBig said,

August 21, 2006 @ 22:52

Also my EFL30 uses the M5603c chipset…

Anyone has ever make that webcam works up to now?
RICARDO said,

August 22, 2006 @ 14:52

MY ASUS PW201 20 .1 inch monitor uses this inbuilt webcam too, 1.3 megapixel driver needed for both windows and linux

Capabilities: 132
Class: Image
ClassGUID: {6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}
CompatibleIDs: USB\Class_ff&SubClass_ff&Prot_ff
ConfigFlags: 0
DeviceDesc: BisonCam, NB Pro
FriendlyName: BisonCam, NB Pro
HardwareID: USB\Vid_0402&Pid_5602&Rev_0100
LocationInformation: USB2.0 Camera
Mfg: WebCam
Service: Cam5603D
UINumber: 0
willem said,

September 1, 2006 @ 12:51

There is a test program for the webcam with m5602 chips (ASUS notebooks) on linux on http://www.actiongames.co.uk/m560x/forum. The more people try it might in the end get to a working driver
tree said,

September 3, 2006 @ 2:04

My Lenovo Laptop uses 5603 inbuilt webcam 30Mpixel
eva said,

September 21, 2006 @ 1:19

I have a asus laptop. My Web cam on it wont work. Another application/ program is using it but nothing else is opened on my laptop. Can u please help me???
Drslump said,

November 8, 2006 @ 8:40

Hi, i got an asus W201 widescreen lcd monitor that integrates an 1.3 mpixel webcam, based on the same chipset.
I must say that drivers are buggy even on widows xp enviroment: the latest driver gives a choppy and low framerate (less than 1fps) output on my pc (athlon thunderbird 1200mhz on via kt133a chipset).

Is it possible to let the webcam work under ubuntu linux?
SNayDragon said,

December 10, 2006 @ 8:07

I have an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop, and it also has the Ali M560x camera.

Snippet of a ‘lsusb -v’ report:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0×0402 ALi Corp.
idProduct 0×5602
antenagora said,

December 20, 2006 @ 19:14

Lenovo V100 0763-46G too uses this cam:
ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Antti Palosaari said,

January 7, 2007 @ 19:59

Acer Aspire 9302ESMi uses this too.
Antti Palosaari said,

January 7, 2007 @ 20:01

ugh, typo, Acer Aspire 9302WSMi, model 9302ESMi does not even exists.
pierissimo said,

January 18, 2007 @ 20:03

I have an integrated ali webcam on asus notebook a6va. this notebook was released more than one year ago…..

it’s incredible…. after all this time no driver have been released by ali(or asus)…..
Alessio said,

January 27, 2007 @ 11:10

Hello, I’m writing from Italy. I’m a suse user and trying to understand hot to install my web cam on asus a6km, the first Google result has been this web page.
Trying other results I come back always in this page…so I have to deduce that there are no news about Bison Cam Linux driver….
Let me know
Chris said,

February 8, 2007 @ 23:26

I have a Lenovo 3000 V100 which has Bisoncam NB. I think it uses this chip. Hasn’t anyone tried the windows driver in linux? I use Ubuntu…
sndgt said,

February 9, 2007 @ 2:20

my ecs g220 notebook also has this webcam.
btw, im using opensuse 10.2 on this and the webcam doesn’t work. does anyone know how to make this built in webcam work on linux?
azor said,

February 14, 2007 @ 20:53

Acer Aspire 3680 (3682NWXMi)
Integrated WebCam 0.3Mpixels
lsusb -v
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Morningstar said,

February 19, 2007 @ 21:50

I have an Gigabyte w251u Notebook with this BisonCam build in.
Maria said,

February 22, 2007 @ 11:37

Dear Management,

my note book name is rcg ,it has sticker pasted near keys is W2 wide wider,and intel inside centrino,mobile technology,Now problem is that i recently formatted my NB it had some error on it,but when i re install xp every thing is working properly except camera,it seems that it required a driver for it,which im unable to provide,camera is in build in the laptop,and its name is bison usb 2.0 camera ,previosely it downloaded from internet the driver for itself automatically from the hard ware wizard,but the thing is that it has accepted that driver but showing only black or gray screen ,nothing is there in live cam?????……help me.
Andres Castro said,

February 28, 2007 @ 22:10

i have Suse 10.2 and don’t recognizme my integrated webcam. I have a HP Pavilion dv 2125la noteboock. Can you help me? and if you know my integrated Mic doesn work neither.

Thanks
Phil Pinkerton said,

April 23, 2007 @ 14:17

My Acer 5102 amd64(x2) came with OrbiCam does NOT work on Linux Ubuntu feisty 7.04 amd64

lsusb = Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.

video0 does exist but xawtv does not see it ??

ll /dev/video0
crw-rw—- 1 root adm 81, 0 2007-04-23 05:41 /dev/video0

xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.20-14-generic)
can’t open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

Ubuntu Linux 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 16:32:46 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Works fine on XP
cof said,

May 23, 2007 @ 16:16

asus A5EB has the cam 2
$ lsusb|grep ALi
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Snapafun said,

June 25, 2007 @ 11:09

Just adding info for my NB Pro Bison On my Asus A6km:
lsusb = Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Running PCLinuxOS 2007
Sam Liddicott » OSS Bounty: 0402:5602 m560x webcam driver said,

June 27, 2007 @ 21:54

[...] A nicely collated list of all the webcams that use the said chip. [...]
Sam Liddicott said,

June 27, 2007 @ 22:13

I’m offering $150 bounty to whoever writes a v4l driver and gets it incorporated in the kernel under a compatable GPL license.

More details at:
http://www.liddicott.com/~sam/?p=76

The bounty will be listed at

http://bountycounty.org/Bounty County

soon, and I’ll add the reference on my blog when it does.

Any other users feel free to add your own pledges.
Adam Macura said,

July 5, 2007 @ 20:13

The same camera is used in MSI 1717 aka L735 notebook
Ralf said,

July 15, 2007 @ 23:05

My Packard Bell Easynote MX45 201 does also use this Camtype.
kjetil said,

July 18, 2007 @ 17:03

And on my newly purchased zepto znote 6625wd, what was important for me was webcam and linux, look like i screwed up ;( 2 Years and nobody got a driver yet ?
Darwin said,

August 2, 2007 @ 4:23

the “Ali M560x Linux Driver Project” is gone now… for some odd reason
Mikey said,

August 25, 2007 @ 9:11

but it sounds interesting…
Lars Luthman said,

August 31, 2007 @ 11:02

The Zepto Znote 6025WD laptop has a builtin webcam with USB vid/pid 0402/5602.
HT said,

September 4, 2007 @ 20:14

I have same problem with ali corp/webcam, but I do have the windows driver so if anyone can use them to make a linux driver I’ll send them to you…. or maybe get Zepto to provide some linux support
Claus said,

September 6, 2007 @ 19:34

Does any of you guys know which one the the currently active Ali M560x Linux Driver project is most developed and mature?
Sebastian said,

September 8, 2007 @ 12:22

The Creative “Live! Cam Video IM Pro” uses the M5603c chipset, just for the record.
Sebastian said,

September 8, 2007 @ 12:42

Drivers are at “https://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=185953″, didn’t check in what shape they are, though.
Olaf Reitmaier said,

September 12, 2007 @ 2:57

Acer Orbicam 1.3 Megapixels on a laptop Acer 3660 WLMI

olaf@SUSHI:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.

For now, no driver has been found yet…

Regards.
Chris said,

September 20, 2007 @ 17:44

Sebastian, did you try the driver in our camera???
tim said,

September 21, 2007 @ 1:25

Msi laptop PR200 (or the MSI 1221 barebone) has this webcam. It has 1.3 MEGAPIXELS written right at the bottom corner and DIGITAL CAMERA written on the top left corner.

I’ve searched for hours and nothing seem to work. Would be greatful if anybody can provide a link or hint on how to get it work under ubuntu.
Pete said,

September 26, 2007 @ 3:10

http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

it works. look for the driver, and for the program videoview.
Computer Maintenance Tips said,

September 29, 2007 @ 10:59

Computer Maintenance Tips…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…
Archangel Uriel said,

October 5, 2007 @ 0:15

Acer Asrire 9303WMSi

$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller

Another model to the list…

@Pete

There is no 560x in their list, man…
care said,

October 5, 2007 @ 15:16

lenovo 3000 v200
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Asus A6VA + (K)ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon): guida all’installazione « Moro’s Blog said,

October 23, 2007 @ 12:24

[...] Ulteriori accessori:Telecamera (bisoncam, peccato che i driver per linux non siano piÃ¹ sviluppati), lettore di schede SD, lettore schede pcmcia. [...]
UxBoD said,

October 25, 2007 @ 20:31

Rock X770 Laptop

Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
Chris said,

October 28, 2007 @ 0:27

Another device that uses this camera is the Eurocom m560a Divine series of notebook computers.
Chris said,

October 28, 2007 @ 9:56

Eurocom is just another company that re-labels Clevo products. Eurocom suggests in their driver section that the manufacturer is Sertek, but after some internet snooping I’ve found that it’s the same as the BisonCam.

What I would suggest for driver development:

1) download some usb-monitor software for windows
2) run the usb monitor software
3) run a simple program in windows to view the output of the camera
4) stop the webcam app & usb monitor software
5) analyze the captured usb data based on known formats of usb messages.
care said,

October 30, 2007 @ 1:12

looks like it is dead
leuteris said,

November 3, 2007 @ 23:17

The Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi 2530 seems to have it too
MoonMaker said,

November 7, 2007 @ 18:09

The Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pa 2548 seems to have it too
Karpiu said,

November 11, 2007 @ 23:40

Driver from this site ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/ ) doesn’t work at all. I’am still waiting
SEnklar said,

November 15, 2007 @ 12:55

Asus notebook A3 series (maybe some others too) as well
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0402:5603 ALi Corp. USB 2.0 Q-tec Webcam 300

Pete wrote that the UVC works for him. Pete, can you pls write some HOWTO, it didn’t work for me (no /dev/video0 appeared, no error message, but the module has loaded)
em said,

November 17, 2007 @ 14:32

Is any driver for FreeBSD for Bison Cam? In my system (on Asus A6F) is visible on:
[root@em ~]# dmesg | grep ugen
ugen0: on uhub4
ugen1: on uhub2

Greetings
em said,

November 17, 2007 @ 14:34

[root@em /usr/ports/graphics/vid]# dmesg | grep ugen
ugen0: vendor 0×0402 USB2.0 Camera, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub4
ugen1: vendor 0x0b05 product 0×1712, class 224/1, rev 2.00/19.15, addr 2 on uhub2

(is here a XSS bug?) alert(“XSS bug”);
Someone said,

November 24, 2007 @ 11:14

have tried https://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/ on A6Jc laptop, it detekts my webcam but I get IO errors + alot of other errors when I try to view it.
Karry said,

November 27, 2007 @ 17:29

I have Acer Aspire 5100 series with BisonCam (0402:5602). Ali M560x Driver result: “No supported sensor detected”

Do you know where can I get info about my sensor? I try modify driver source… and my sensor has I2C address 0x5A. But i have neither other information about that.
nlz said,

December 3, 2007 @ 13:43

ASUS S96J also has this camera and none of the drivers seems to be working until now.
Hugo Torres said,

December 5, 2007 @ 1:29

My D700T laptop has a webcam with this chipset.

Damn.
Micha said,

December 5, 2007 @ 13:04

My ASUS Monitor PG191 have the Vendor ID 0×0402 and the Chip ID 0×5602
PROXIMO said,

January 7, 2008 @ 18:34

Asus PW 201 build in webcam 1.3mp
Vendor ID 0×402 (ALi Corp.)
Product ID 0×5602
Revision 1.00
Speed 480 Mbit/s

need driver for Slackware
Sean said,

January 9, 2008 @ 13:38

It looks like the MSI L745-072US model of laptop uses a version of the ALI M560x configuration. The output from ‘lshw-gtk’ lists the following:

Generic USB device
/0/100/1d.7/1/2

product: USB2.0 Camera
vendor: ALi Corp.
bus info: usb@5:2
version: 1.00
capabilities:
USB 2.0
configuration:
maxpower: 500mA
speed: 480.0MB/s

..and the mfgr driver that made it work under V!$7@ was called ‘BisonCam’

It seems that the links you’ve presented are broken, today. Bugger
impact said,

January 10, 2008 @ 19:18

MSI GX700 aka MS-1719 uses the same cam (with the words “1.3 MEGA PIXEL” and “DIGITAL CAMERA” right next to it)
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp.
bLaCkMeTaL said,

January 28, 2008 @ 15:47

My MSI EX700 laptop very similar to MS-1719 use the same webcam. It says Bisoncam.
ArSoron said,

January 29, 2008 @ 22:12

Acer 5112 WLMi. Same Webcam, same problem. No sollution found still.
Kubuntu 5.10 (Breeze) - Messa a punto at luigirossi.net said,

February 21, 2008 @ 18:36

[...] webcam Bison non Ã¨ compatibile: spero che almeno uno dei progetti per farla funzionare (descritti qui ) sia [...]
Claus said,

February 21, 2008 @ 21:02

Have any of you guys tested the Ali M560x Linux Driver ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/ ) recently?
Jason Leung said,

February 22, 2008 @ 6:21

The BenQ Joybook S31V uses the Ali Corp M5602 chipset for it’s 1.3MP camera.
nlz said,

March 7, 2008 @ 11:31

is there maybe a driver included in Hardy Heron? Can a hardy heron user comment on this topic?
Capodastro said,

March 12, 2008 @ 2:36

Like a lot of people here in central Europe, I have a Targa laptop equipped with this ominous bison 1.3 megapixel. I run Linux on 64 bit but my win drivers are 32 bit, otherwise I would try to load them with the ndiswrapper…
olivierp said,

April 6, 2008 @ 19:14

There’s no driver for Hardy, as _none_ of the resellers using the Ali 5602/5603 chip have released any specs for it. ALi is entirely unresponsive to email, or anything else.

To make things even more interesting, each of these chipsets uses at least 2 different types sensors… depending on who/when it was built.
The sourceforge project ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/ ) is still alive, but progress is slow, due to complete lack of information from the vendors.
bob said,

April 7, 2008 @ 14:37

My experience too.

I have mailed Ali – http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/about/index.htm – and I haven’t heard anything from them yet.

I really doubt on the interest in the development of any linux driver to support their product – or or products in general.

It is very scaring, since they are part of Acer.

Do you guys think that Acer opposes the development of linux and open source in general?
flo said,

April 15, 2008 @ 22:17

hi,

i have tried the m560x driver on a hardy heron system running on a FSC XA2528. No supported sensor detected it says. Does anyone know wich sensor is used by Fujitsu or is there another solution to get it work?

Flo
David said,

April 16, 2008 @ 20:29

Hello flo,

Could you post your device ID?

You can obtaining by using the “lspci -v” command.

David
Nadalizadeh said,

April 17, 2008 @ 13:03

ali@Velocity:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:007d Microsoft Corp. Notebook Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2 Bluetooth
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc. AES1600
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

The driver didn’t found any sensor for me too !
Mark said,

May 13, 2008 @ 5:09

My Acer Aspire 5102 returns the following from lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Selmanuk said,

May 13, 2008 @ 8:57

Acer Aspire 5102:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Pablo said,

May 23, 2008 @ 17:33

Any news on a Slim USB2 driver???
Ruben - Hubuntu said,

May 30, 2008 @ 11:51

The Packard Bell EasyNote GN45 Skype Edition uses this cheapset too (Unbelievable that both computers have the same crappy chipset) :

ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller

I had the same problem with a Zepto 2314W machine I had before… This camera is nightmarish..

See more:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/

They have a driver sort of working… Needs some testing, so try it if you can.
pierredek said,

June 7, 2008 @ 16:53

BisonCam also on Fujitsu Amilio Xi 2528 … works ok on Vista but not recognized with any possible drivers found with suse 10.x
Freerk Jongsma said,

June 9, 2008 @ 14:37

I have bought a NGS spincam today.
It shows in /proc./bus/usb/devices:
Vendor=176b ProdID=a169 Rev= 1.02
Product=ALI M5603C
So it uses the same name with a complete different hardware ID
Sebastian said,

June 24, 2008 @ 16:56

HI iÂ´m from Argentina i dont speak english very well, but reading all about comments i write about my experience with webcam Ali M5603c or Bison Cam. Well in win xp or vista the webcam work OK! i have a notebook Bangho Dc 1501 but really its a CLEVO M660SRU becuase in argentina bangho imports thaths notbooks and puts his name.I have a cd with drivers but only for windwos xp and vista. I try to used it wiht linux (LinuxMInt Elyssa) i am no good in linux..but i download camorama and some driver call spec5xx or something like this.. and i cant do it to work. But when i go to control panel an in hardware setting….and select multimedia devices…i have an option to test the video device input..i select v4l2 an i press button test and woow!! its appear an window and the camera is working!!! but i cant do it work with some program like camorama…i still trying to do it work but if i have notices i write the notices…sorry for mi english i hope you that understand what i write jeje byeee… if i can i put a sreenshot with the camera working in that test mode…byeeee
Sebastian said,

June 25, 2008 @ 1:53

HI again jeje well recently i added two videos in youtube showing the webcam in function one with the program cheese and ohter with aMSN so if you want to see the webcam Ali function in linux see them…idont do anything to configure linuxmint detected my webcam …. byeee
links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGyX6K7QRA
and the other video found with my user im uploading right now (user youtube sebargarcia)
Chris said,

July 2, 2008 @ 10:43

How did you do that??
What drivers did you use?
What “control panel” are you refering to?
Hendy Irawan said,

July 5, 2008 @ 6:42

Zyrex GEF525 has this too

Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0×0402 ALi Corp.
idProduct 0×5602 Video Camera Controller
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 0
iProduct 1 USB2.0 Camera
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1

I’m using Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, no luck. Easycam2 not support.

ceefour@caliva:~$ uname -a
Linux caliva 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

If Linux Mint can make this work it should be backported to Ubuntu…!!!
andreamatesi said,

July 10, 2008 @ 20:45

hi, add my laptop too.
I have an MSI EX 700, with Ali 5602.
here my lsusb:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0×0402 ALi Corp.
idProduct 0×5602 Video Camera Controller
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 0
iProduct 1 USB2.0 Camera
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 101
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0×81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 1
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0×0000 1x 0 bytes
bInterval 1
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
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Asham said,

July 26, 2008 @ 3:50

My Packard Bell EasyNote Skype Edition uses this chipset also. Already tried it with linux mint still no luck.
David Campbell said,

July 31, 2008 @ 6:04

Clevo D870P uses this too…

[root@clevo ~]# lsusb | grep -i ali
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0402:5603 ALi Corp. USB 2.0 Q-tec Webcam 300
Beepjuh said,

August 18, 2008 @ 18:26

Hi all,

I think I have a webcam with this chipset, it’s the Eminent iLook-EM1088. Lsusb recognizes it as:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5603 ALi Corp. USB 2.0 Q-tec Webcam 300

Looks pretty much the same.

So, I’m going to give the Sourceforge driver a go. I’ll let you know what happens.
Beepjuh said,

August 18, 2008 @ 20:12

I guess I’m too unexperienced to get this driver installed. Anybody with a nice little walkthrough on svn? I’m not a complete noob, just partially

Thanks in advance!
Beepjuh said,

August 19, 2008 @ 10:29

Tried with the gspca driver from http://mxhaard.free.fr/, it loads but it doesn’t work. I do have /dev/video0, but it is assigned to my mpeg-card instead of the cam.

From Sebastians post I understand this is the driver he is using. For me it obviously doesn’t work.
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August 31, 2008 @ 22:05

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chris said,

September 7, 2008 @ 8:30

Hey guys, check this out:

http://diyistheway.blogspot.com/2008/09/ok-so-i-have-this-nice-lenovo-laptop.html

It’s a bypass solution for the problem… Any ideas?
Any suggestions on possible camera-matches, or additional info about this chip?

Thanks for looking
Bruno said,

September 27, 2008 @ 19:59

Packard Bell MX36-U-099 uses this chip too. Anyone found a way of making it work on Linux?
Franck said,

October 18, 2008 @ 23:27

I need some beta testeurs for the m5603c. Please visit the project.

http://m560x-driver.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/m560x-driver/m560x/branches/m5603c-gspca/

Franck
Chris said,

October 22, 2008 @ 17:03

Is m5603c-gspca our branch?

I have make problems:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5481766
karlzt said,

November 14, 2008 @ 20:38

http://lwn.net/Articles/291036/

search for the word bisoncap, look the comments
Fred said,

November 18, 2008 @ 19:23

I think 5602 and 5603 are different devices (chips) from vendor 0402=ALi Corp.

Reading a lot of posts I remember that 5603 works in some distros but not always fine and 5602 rarely.

Some possible solutions implicate in compiling modules but for begginers, even with “recipes” , this is not always easy.

My NB is a brazilian Positivo Mobile V146 in fact a Clevo M540E/550SE (as in BIOS info). This is a typical “for W” or “anti-linux” machine.

Independently of the other devices that yet don’t work well, the webcam is a 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Controller known also as BisonCam in “W”.

Up to now I didn’t get it to work in Linux
Guilherme said,

November 19, 2008 @ 1:37

Hei Fred… So is mine: Positivo Mobile V56,

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller

Completely beginner in linux, found lots of tutorials but they all failed… sourceforge is completely greec language for me… Speak Portuguese. Good bye. Falowz
Pereira said,

January 3, 2009 @ 22:02

As a buyer of my computer I demand to the society to insure that my webcam works, so I support linux developpers against a firm that sold me something I can’t use whereas I never signed that I would use it ONLY under windows.

This company is a thief company.
Pereira said,

January 3, 2009 @ 22:03

Ah by the way my cam is an ALI “5602″ video controller as my computer said in the console.
Pereira said,

January 3, 2009 @ 22:41

If I have the drivers installation CD’s from windows wouldn’t it help a bit? I think not otherwise you would have resolved the problem yet…
smaba said,

January 4, 2009 @ 17:34

Hey,

I followed these instructions here and it worked. BTW …I use the Ali Webcam on a Zepto Znote6615WD:

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/webcam_ali

greets
smaba said,

January 4, 2009 @ 19:25

I first had some green destortions with my webcam on skype. But found that:

Rename (move) /usr/bin/skype to /usr/bin/skype.real
Then create a script at:
/usr/bin/skype
Code:

#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype.real

Then give /usr/bin/skype executable permission. My links to skype aren’t broken, and there’s no need to keep a terminal open just for skype.
Best of all, my video works! (at least, the video test does.)

***Reminder: Be sure to call “skype.real” (NOT skype) to the command in the script. Calling skype in the script will cause your system to run out of memory (due to recursive calls). I made this mistake the first time. I did Ctrl+Alt+Backspace just in time. Thank goodness for the 4GB. There was a long blank screen, and then I had to manually start X again.

If u wanna read the whole thread : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997807&page=2

so now my ali webcam works like a charm on skype!!!

Viva Linux
Christoph said,

January 16, 2009 @ 2:44

every time a pleasure.
thpar said,

January 20, 2009 @ 14:04

This is great…

I’ve been following this page for over a year now, and the posts of smaba are the final breakthrough!

On Fedora 10, on my Zepto 6625WD (built in Bisoncam: Bus 002 Device 009: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller) the install he suggests Just Worked!

‘make’ ran without any problem.
The libv4l libs were not copied to the correct place on ‘make install’ (I suppose because the script was written for Ubuntu?), but just installing the libv4l package (yum install libv4l.i386) did the trick.

To use Skype, you indeed have to define the LD_PRELOAD… and I’m now looking at myself in the Skype video device test window. Maybe this var could be defined on startup (in .bash.profile instead of in the skype script) to make all apps work at once? Or would this break other apps?

In each case: thanks for all the work and hints, I’m really glad the last piece of hardware on my laptop finally works. Good luck to everybody still trying to get this working.
thpar said,

January 20, 2009 @ 14:25

For further testing: this command shows the webcam input in mplayer:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so mplayer -fps 30 -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video tv://
Chris said,

January 20, 2009 @ 15:53

Just installed the new drivers.

Either with camorama or skype, the green LED lights up (on the camera) but no image is visible.

It’s not like before starting the video, but it’s a white static image.

I did the LD_PRELOAD method offcourse. Any ideas? Need a screenshot?
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PROXIMO said,

January 31, 2009 @ 16:25

i used this one http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/webcam_ali and it works , but the picture is greeny. I am happy though, hope to make another build soon.
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thpar said,

February 3, 2009 @ 14:47

PROXIMO,

The greeny image is because some programs require the LD_PRELOAD to be defined.

Starting skype eg, you can type on the command line

$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
$ skype

and the image should be nice and clear…

Here, I have to do it for mplayer and skype. Kopete and Cheese work without it.
Chris Mavrakis said,

February 3, 2009 @ 17:00

YES! It works!
At last!

I’ve been waiting for 2.5 years for the camera to work in Linux!
It was useless until now!

Great… Followed french instructions http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/webcam_ali (translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc.ubuntu-fr.org%2Fwebcam_ali&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=)

and replaced skype with a script running
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
and then skype.

It works! Thanks so much!
PROXIMO said,

February 6, 2009 @ 20:52

I have other problem now usually skype loads with KDE and i like that. I tried to put export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so in /etc/rc.d/rc.local but doesnt work. I made a skript that loads LD_PRELOAD & then skype and it is ok. When i put it in ~/user/.kde/Autostart it works, but the next time i boot the system i have 2 skypes running. I need to know how to to make it load as before without doing sth every time manually
Chris Mavrakis said,

February 8, 2009 @ 11:06

Leave your scrpit as is.
It seems to work.

There must be some place where you set what programs start when you enter a session. (it’s sessions in gnome)

Find skype and disable it.
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emo said,

February 24, 2010 @ 20:20

I got a zepto znote 6625WD with a biult in webcamera that doesent work. computer cant find the hardware, no responce. got windows vista sp3 installed. can i download this linuxdriver for use in vista? probably not… been searching a solution for months now. anyone with knowledge about this?
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