Help getting csi camera working

[cgpadwick]

Hi, I have a seeed studio J401 carrier board and Orin NX 8GB. I have JP6.0 installed on it and uname -r says 5.15.136-tegra

I have a Raspberry Pi Global Shutter camera (Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera - PiShop.us) with a CSI ribbon cable plugged in. I’m having trouble getting the device to be recognized and need some advice on what to try.

I tried systemctl status nvargus-daemon and got this:

nvidia@orin-desktop:~/Desktop$ systemctl status nvargus-daemon
● nvargus-daemon.service - Argus daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nvargus-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-09-19 18:51:53 PDT; 41min ago
   Main PID: 981 (nvargus-daemon)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 8813)
     Memory: 43.3M
        CPU: 290ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/nvargus-daemon.service
             └─981 /usr/sbin/nvargus-daemon

Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: NvPclDriverInitializeData: Unable to initialize driver v4l2_sensor
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: NvPclInitializeDrivers: error: Failed to init camera sub module v4l2_sensor
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: NvPclStartPlatformDrivers: Failed to start module drivers
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: NvPclDriver_V4L2_Focuser_Stub_Close: Invalid NULL input pPclDriver
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: NvPclStateControllerOpen: Failed ImagerGUID 0. (error 0xA000E)
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: NvPclOpen: PCL Open Failed. Error: 0xf
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: SCF: Error BadParameter: Sensor could not be opened. (in src/services/capture/CaptureServiceDeviceSensor.cpp, func>
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: SCF: Error BadParameter:  (propagating from src/services/capture/CaptureService.cpp, function addSourceByGuid(), l>
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: SCF: Error BadParameter:  (propagating from src/api/CameraDriver.cpp, function addSourceByIndex(), line 347)
Sep 19 18:52:05 orin-desktop nvargus-daemon[981]: SCF: Error BadParameter:  (propagating from src/api/CameraDriver.cpp, function getSource(), line 519)

When I try v4l2-ctl --list-devices I see this:

nvidia@orin-desktop:~/Desktop$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
NVIDIA Tegra Video Input Device (platform:tegra-camrtc-ca):
	/dev/media0

Cannot open device /dev/video0, exiting.

I suspect the driver for this camera isn’t installed but would appreciate a pointer in the right direction to resolve this issue. thanks in advance!

[JerryChang]

hello cgpadwick,

it looks the camera device did not register to the system.
during kernel initialization stage, it’s step for camera device registration to setup a video device node to linux kernel. sensor probing only run once during kernel initialization stage of system boot-up.
for a typical camera application running cycle, the driver will Power On the sensor, Start Sensor Streaming, sending relevant v4l2 controls, and finally power off the sensor.
so… if there’s a error returns, it’ll not register a video node, (/dev/video0).

please contact with sensor vendor to confirm it’s compatible with JP-6.0
you may see-also r36.3 release note for section [4.2. Device Registration].