Use pi camera on Raspberry pi with archlinux-arm
For Raspbian there is raspi-config to enable the camera on a raspberry pi. On a system without raspi-config the changes are:
Changes in
/boot/config.txt
:
gpu_mem=128 start_file=start_x.elf fixup_file=fixup_x.dat initramfs initramfs-linux.img followkernel cma_lwm= cma_hwm= cma_offline_start=
Not reboot for the change to get loaded.
To check if the camera is working:
this should result in:
supported=1 detected=1
Finally shoot an image:
NOTE
This post is from 2020 and the camera config changed a bit since then, see https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/config_txt.html