Rock 3 CSI camera dark green image problem

#1

Hello. I’ve been trying to use an IMX-219 CSI camera with Rock 3A and Rock 3C.
My problem is that no matter what I do, the image is always dark green (on both boards and also 4SE).

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I am aware that this is a well-known and very often encountered problem with the software.
Probably it’s configuration-related or something.

CSI cameras are extremely important to me in my projects…
So I wanted to ask - what would be the final and general solution for this?

Maybe it would be a good idea to add the instructions on how to fix this to the documentation?

P.S. Also I noticed that on the 3A the gstreamer1.0-rockchip1 package isn’t available and therefore mpp plugins aren’t available for GStreamer.

#2

@ken please give some advice

#3

May I ask which image you are using?
You use the command ps -aux | grep rkaiq_3A_server to see if the aiq is running.

#4

You mean the OS image? Right, sorry, I forgot to mention.
I’m using Debian Bullseye CLI release B39 because the newest B42 freezes on bootup.

The command that you gave gives the following output:

radxa        739  0.0  0.0   6036   632 pts/0    S+   12:52   0:00 grep rkaiq_3A_server
#5

You can have a try with command apt full-upgrade

#6

Why would that matter? My current OS image is completely up-to-date.
I always do updates first thing after installing a new image.

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
      yq
    Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Can we return to the camera problem?

#7

Because you’re using a cli image without a desktop, there are a lot of packages missing by default, and you can install the missing packages with the command sudo apt install task-rock3c

If you want to use the camera, I still recommend you to use our latest image with desktop，the function support is more complete!
https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-3c/releases/download/b42/rock-3c_debian_bullseye_xfce_b42.img.xz

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#8

Huh? Why would they make the decision not to include some of the functionalities in CLI images for the 3 series? RK356X are too weak to handle a desktop environment in a usable way anyway so making it a requirement only wastes RAM and disk space.

I can confirm that installing said package (task-rock-3c, there’s a dash missing) did make the camera work properly, but…

I swear I’m not complaining just for the sake of it. I’m simply genuinely confused, especially since Raspberry Pi CLI images have full camera support no problem.

#9

In general, we recommend using the desktop version of the image, cli version of the temporary support is not comprehensive, must be used cli, you need to install their own.

#10

That is not what I’m asking. I understand what you’re saying. I understood what you said the first time.
What I’m asking is “why?”.

The 3 and 4 series aren’t performant enough to handle a desktop environment.
And hardware acceleration isn’t present anyway.
So why make a DE version in the first place?