ov51x-jpeg rpm was available for opensuse 11.0 and previous versions. I fail to find it for 11.1. My webcam requires it (IIRC it is a creative webcam … if anybody requires details I can pull it out of my basement).
I am comfortable with command-line, however I would prefer not to compile the source code (I am not familiar with compiling kernel modules 
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Does anyone have an ideas?
Recently I had an issue making my Hp 2-megapixel webcam to work with Opensuse 11.1 and created a thread regarding. One kind hearted suser came to the rescue and directed me to a very useful links where I was able to made this webcam work. Here is the thread that I started.
HP 2-megapixel webcam on opensuse 11.1 - openSUSE Forums
Please follow the link from pdc’s post and read thoroughly with the hope that your webcam’s driver is supported.
With your concern about compiling, me too is a neophyte in this area but with the guide and some googling and searching from the opensuse forums posts I was able able to do this task.
thanks m8. appreciated. I’ll look into it thanks.
My camera is listed at Creative’s Open Source website The code is 041e:4061 which points back to ov51x driver. The camera is also found here but it says “not tested”. A search for “spca” for 11.1 on software.opensuse.org returns 0 hits.
Do I have to compile this one (ov51x) to make it work?
“lsmod | egrep ov” returned “gspca_ov519” driver installed. This was not present before plugging in the camera. It appeared automatically after plugging it in. Does this mean “gspca” and “ov51x” drivers are merged?
Are there any news on the ov51x-jpeg driver for openSUSE 11.1?
Cheers,
homoludens
I have not been working on this since my last post, but does anybody care to help us? (Poster above also has exactly the same Camera, and opensuse 11.1). Do you also use kde4.2(factory)? It appears that the driver (gspca…or…ov519) gets loaded when camera is inserted. However, kopete does not pick it up. Kopete DOES show good details about camera. http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3438/kopete.th.jpg](http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kopete.jpg)
felipe@cheetah:~/OK> lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 041e:4061 Creative Technology, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
felipe@cheetah:~/OK> lsmod|egrep video\|gspca
gspca_ov519 14156 0
gspca_main 19940 1 gspca_ov519
videodev 31236 1 gspca_main
v4l1_compat 13096 1 videodev
video 19992 0
output 2736 1 video
usbcore 167276 9 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,gspca_ov519,gspca_main,hci_usb,btusb,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal_sys 11364 4 video,fan,thermal,processor
felipe@cheetah:~> lsusb -v
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Bus 003 Device 002: ID 041e:4061 Creative Technology, Ltd
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x041e Creative Technology, Ltd
idProduct 0x4061
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Creative Labs
iProduct 2 VF0400 Live! Cam Notebook Pro
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 180
bNumInterfaces 3
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 100mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 1
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0000 1x 0 bytes
bInterval 1
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 1
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 1
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0180 1x 384 bytes
bInterval 1
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 2
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 1
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 1
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 3
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 1
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0300 1x 768 bytes
bInterval 1
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 4
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 1
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0380 1x 896 bytes
bInterval 1
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Control Device
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (HEADER)
bcdADC 1.00
wTotalLength 30
bInCollection 1
baInterfaceNr( 0) 2
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 12
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
bTerminalID 1
wTerminalType 0x0201 Microphone
bAssocTerminal 0
bNrChannels 1
wChannelConfig 0x0000
iChannelNames 0
iTerminal 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
bTerminalID 2
wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming
bAssocTerminal 0
bSourceID 1
iTerminal 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 2
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 2
bAlternateSetting 1
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (AS_GENERAL)
bTerminalLink 2
bDelay 1 frames
wFormatTag 1 PCM
AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
bLength 11
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 2 (FORMAT_TYPE)
bFormatType 1 (FORMAT_TYPE_I)
bNrChannels 1
bSubframeSize 2
bBitResolution 16
bSamFreqType 1 Discrete
tSamFreq 0] 16000
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
bmAttributes 5
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type Asynchronous
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0028 1x 40 bytes
bInterval 1
bRefresh 0
bSynchAddress 0
AudioControl Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 37
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (EP_GENERAL)
bmAttributes 0x00
bLockDelayUnits 0 Undefined
wLockDelay 0 Undefined
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)
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Yes, same here, felipe. Thanks for your post. I haven’t solved the issue yet. Someone on the ov51x-jpeg mailing list recommended that I compile the driver from source. Unfortunately my camera seems to be broken right now, so I need to work on getting a new one first … :sarcastic:
I hate compiling from source. It worked (camera) in 11.0. What happened?
-disappointed.
I’ve very little experience with compiling packages from source, and I’ve also come across a posting by someone who did compile it but still had problems (see here: [opensuse] opensuse 11.1 and VF0400 webcam](http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2009-01/msg02179.html) – I’ve talked to the poster and he’s apparently shelved the issue since the post).
As for why the driver was included in 11.0 but is not in 11.1: I’ve filed a bug report (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476852), and there are some responses that might be of interest to you. It might be useful to know how many types of webcam would benefit from the inclusion …
Cheers,
homoludens
Thanks for the bug report. I am also affected. My creative webcam worked fine with 10.3 and now that I updated to 11.1 several things fell apart, the webcam being one of them. Worst update since 10.0.
I don’t mean to raise a thread from the dead BUT this camera is working OOTB on openSUSE 11.2 KDE4. I haven’t yet used it to chat with anyone, but it is picked up by kopete without any configuration.
felipe@cheetah:~> lsusb|egrep -i creative
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 041e:4061 Creative Technology, Ltd Live! Cam Notebook Pro [VF0400]
felipe@cheetah:~> lsmod | egrep -i 'gspca|ov'
gspca_ov519 33164 1
gspca_main 32072 2 gspca_ov519
videodev 46848 2 gspca_main