Cable Extension Kit libcamera-apps No Output

  1. Where did you get the camera module(s)?
    Arducam shop

  2. Model number of the product(s).

    • SKU: B0386 (16MP IMX519 NOIR)
    • SKU: U6248 (15m extension kit)
  3. What hardware/platform were you working on?
    Tested on both Pi 3B and Pi 4B

  4. Instructions you have followed. (link/manual/etc.)

  5. Problems you were having.
    When the camera is connected directly to the Pi 3&4, it is able to function properly by taking pictures & videos. But after connecting it to through the 15M cable extension kit, the libcamera-apps output is a blank screen with no fps.

  6. The dmesg log from your hardware.

pi4@raspberrypi:~ $ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.15.76-v7l+ (dom@buildbot) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-8 (Ubuntu/Linaro 8.4.0-3ubuntu1) 8.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #1597 SMP Fri Nov 4 12:14:58 GMT 2022
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fd083] revision 3 (ARMv7), cr=30c5383d
[ 0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, PIPT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5
[ 0.000000] random: crng init done
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x000000001ec00000, size 256 MiB
[ 0.000000] OF: reserved mem: initialized node linux,cma, compatible id shared-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000002fffffff]
[ 0.000000] Normal empty
[ 0.000000] HighMem [mem 0x0000000030000000-0x00000000fbffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000003b3fffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000fbffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000fbffffff]
[ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 16 pages/cpu s35788 r8192 d21556 u65536
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s35788 r8192 d21556 u65536 alloc=16*4096
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1011008
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: coherent_pool=1M 8250.nr_uarts=0 snd_bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=0 snd_bcm2835.enable_hdmi=1 video=HDMI-A-1:1280x720M@50 smsc95xx.macaddr=E4:5F:01:AF:30:4B vc_mem.mem_base=0x3ec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=e8e379f6-02 rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles
[ 0.000000] Unknown kernel command line parameters “splash”, will be passed to user space.
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x0000000018890000-0x000000001c890000] (64MB)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 3666988K/4050944K available (10240K kernel code, 1386K rwdata, 3308K rodata, 2048K init, 591K bss, 121812K reserved, 262144K cma-reserved, 3264512K highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] ftrace: allocating 35511 entries in 105 pages
[ 0.000000] ftrace: allocated 105 pages with 4 groups
[ 0.000000] trace event string verifier disabled
[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] Rude variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
[ 0.000000] Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[ 0.000000] GIC: Using split EOI/Deactivate mode
[ 0.000000] irq_brcmstb_l2: registered L2 intc (/soc/interrupt-controller@7ef00100, parent irq: 25)
[ 0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 54.00MHz (phys).
[ 0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0xc743ce346, max_idle_ns: 440795203123 ns
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 56 bits at 54MHz, resolution 18ns, wraps every 4398046511102ns
[ 0.000019] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 18ns
[ 0.000388] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000451] printk: console [tty1] enabled
[ 0.000515] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency… 108.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=540000)
[ 0.000546] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000687] LSM: Security Framework initializing
[ 0.000893] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000923] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.002471] cgroup: Disabling memory control group subsystem
[ 0.002709] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.002771] CPU0: Spectre BHB: enabling loop workaround for all CPUs
[ 0.003227] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[ 0.004737] Setting up static identity map for 0x200000 - 0x20003c
[ 0.004939] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[ 0.005945] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs …
[ 0.007121] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[ 0.008456] CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 0, mpidr 80000002
[ 0.009744] CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 0, mpidr 80000003
[ 0.009915] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[ 0.009940] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (432.00 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.009959] CPU: All CPU(s) started in HYP mode.
[ 0.009972] CPU: Virtualization extensions available.
[ 0.010749] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.026400] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 40 variant 8 rev 0
[ 0.026624] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.026657] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.034697] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.035958] NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family
[ 0.040505] DMA: preallocated 1024 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.041318] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[ 0.041571] audit: type=2000 audit(0.040:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[ 0.042215] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor ‘step_wise’
[ 0.043037] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.043057] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[ 0.043465] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[ 0.059287] bcm2835-mbox fe00b880.mailbox: mailbox enabled
[ 0.100059] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2022-10-26T11:09:05, variant start
[ 0.110076] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Firmware hash is c72ad6b26ff40c91ef776b847436094ee63fabee
[ 0.169999] Kprobes globally optimized
[ 0.176134] bcm2835-dma fe007000.dma: DMA legacy API manager, dmachans=0x1
[ 0.181441] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.181908] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.182158] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.182218] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.182289] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.182720] usb_phy_generic phy: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[ 0.182907] usb_phy_generic phy: dummy supplies not allowed for exclusive requests
[ 0.183217] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 0.183233] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti [email protected]
[ 0.183261] PTP clock support registered
[ 0.185002] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[ 0.265764] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[ 0.265871] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.266055] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 0.266244] CacheFiles: Loaded
[ 0.267341] simple-framebuffer 3e876000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x3e876000, 0x384000 bytes
[ 0.267364] simple-framebuffer 3e876000.framebuffer: format=a8r8g8b8, mode=1280x720x32, linelength=5120
[ 0.267837] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x45
[ 0.272394] simple-framebuffer 3e876000.framebuffer: fb0: simplefb registered!
[ 0.281197] NET: Registered PF_INET protocol family
[ 0.281446] IP idents hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283069] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283104] Table-perturb hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283129] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283193] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283263] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[ 0.283420] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283458] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.283704] NET: Registered PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL protocol family
[ 0.284696] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.284713] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.284728] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.284742] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.284763] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
[ 1.310584] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a7 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[ 1.334054] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[ 1.334357] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=20 bucket_order=6
[ 1.343442] zbud: loaded
[ 1.345586] FS-Cache: Netfs ‘nfs’ registered for caching
[ 1.346443] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 1.346485] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 1.346500] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 1.346632] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering…
[ 1.346648] nfs4flexfilelayout_init: NFSv4 Flexfile Layout Driver Registering…
[ 1.347741] Key type asymmetric registered
[ 1.347758] Asymmetric key parser ‘x509’ registered
[ 1.347988] bounce: pool size: 64 pages
[ 1.348067] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 247)
[ 1.348302] io scheduler mq-deadline registered
[ 1.348319] io scheduler kyber registered
[ 1.357980] brcm-pcie fd500000.pcie: host bridge /scb/pcie@7d500000 ranges:
[ 1.358023] brcm-pcie fd500000.pcie: No bus range found for /scb/pcie@7d500000, using [bus 00-ff]
[ 1.358116] brcm-pcie fd500000.pcie: MEM 0x0600000000…0x063fffffff → 0x00c0000000
[ 1.358210] brcm-pcie fd500000.pcie: IB MEM 0x0000000000…0x00ffffffff → 0x0400000000
[ 1.417104] brcm-pcie fd500000.pcie: link up, 5.0 GT/s PCIe x1 (SSC)
[ 1.417511] brcm-pcie fd500000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 1.417532] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[ 1.417553] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x600000000-0x63fffffff] (bus address [0xc0000000-0xffffffff])
[ 1.417655] pci 0000:00:00.0: [14e4:2711] type 01 class 0x060400
[ 1.417901] pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot
[ 1.421763] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[ 1.421788] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[ 1.422176] pci 0000:01:00.0: [1106:3483] type 00 class 0x0c0330
[ 1.422306] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit]
[ 1.422738] pci 0000:01:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot
[ 1.426591] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[ 1.426612] pci_bus 0000:01: busn_res: [bus 01-ff] end is updated to 01
[ 1.426656] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x600000000-0x6000fffff]
[ 1.426683] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x600000000-0x600000fff 64bit]
[ 1.426769] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[ 1.426795] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x600000000-0x6000fffff]
[ 1.427213] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0140 → 0142)
[ 1.427452] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 79
[ 1.441863] iproc-rng200 fe104000.rng: hwrng registered
[ 1.442249] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x3ec00000 mem_size:0x40000000(1024 MiB)
[ 1.443856] gpiomem-bcm2835 fe200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0xfe200000
[ 1.457002] brd: module loaded
[ 1.467448] loop: module loaded
[ 1.468277] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[ 1.473635] bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet: GENET 5.0 EPHY: 0x0000
[ 1.565161] unimac-mdio unimac-mdio.-19: Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus
[ 1.566407] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
[ 1.566477] usbcore: registered new interface driver lan78xx
[ 1.566539] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 1.615442] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.615481] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 1.621033] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: hcc params 0x002841eb hci version 0x100 quirks 0x0000740000000890
[ 1.622091] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.622130] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 1.622156] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: Host supports USB 3.0 SuperSpeed
[ 1.622549] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 5.15
[ 1.622574] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.622594] usb usb1: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.622611] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 5.15.76-v7l+ xhci-hcd
[ 1.622628] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:01:00.0
[ 1.623394] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.623466] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.624479] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 5.15
[ 1.624502] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.624521] usb usb2: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.624539] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 5.15.76-v7l+ xhci-hcd
[ 1.624555] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:01:00.0
[ 1.625311] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.625411] hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 1.627381] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[ 1.627788] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[ 1.627802] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[ 1.627815] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[ 1.627833] Module dwc_common_port init
[ 1.628314] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 1.628423] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.628635] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.634522] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.634540] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 1.635358] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 1.639271] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 1.639633] hid: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 1.639836] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.639851] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.646504] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 1.646548] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
[ 1.646670] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 1.647159] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.647987] registered taskstats version 1
[ 1.648016] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[ 1.648865] Key type ._fscrypt registered
[ 1.648882] Key type .fscrypt registered
[ 1.648896] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered
[ 1.661375] uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: there is not valid maps for state default
[ 1.661698] uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: cts_event_workaround enabled
[ 1.661827] fe201000.serial: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0xfe201000 (irq = 34, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
[ 1.671238] bcm2835-wdt bcm2835-wdt: Broadcom BCM2835 watchdog timer
[ 1.671788] bcm2835-power bcm2835-power: Broadcom BCM2835 power domains driver
[ 1.673048] mmc-bcm2835 fe300000.mmcnr: mmc_debug:0 mmc_debug2:0
[ 1.673069] mmc-bcm2835 fe300000.mmcnr: DMA channel allocated
[ 1.704262] of_cfs_init
[ 1.704531] of_cfs_init: OK
[ 1.740094] mmc0: SDHCI controller on fe340000.mmc [fe340000.mmc] using ADMA
[ 1.740499] Waiting for root device PARTUUID=e8e379f6-02…
[ 1.792934] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
[ 1.839699] mmc0: new ultra high speed DDR50 SDHC card at address 5048
[ 1.840709] mmcblk0: mmc0:5048 SD32G 28.9 GiB
[ 1.844302] mmcblk0: p1 p2
[ 1.844856] mmcblk0: mmc0:5048 SD32G 28.9 GiB
[ 1.868931] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null). Quota mode: none.
[ 1.869014] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
[ 1.870071] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 1.881130] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 2048K
[ 1.905057] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 1.905348] Run /sbin/init as init process
[ 1.905364] with arguments:
[ 1.905377] /sbin/init
[ 1.905390] splash
[ 1.905403] with environment:
[ 1.905416] HOME=/
[ 1.905429] TERM=linux
[ 2.087666] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=3431, bcdDevice= 4.21
[ 2.087698] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.087718] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 2.089927] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.090202] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected