Creative webcam plus driver ov511 does not work.

[John Cooper]

When I plug in the creative webcam plus the kernel loads the driver and creates the devices fine but when I try to access the device with xawtv of gnomemeeting I get no picture.

dmesg output:

[4303515.482000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2[4303517.244000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[4303517.359000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: USB OV518 video device found
[4303517.361000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: Device revision 9
[4303517.373000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: Compression required with OV518...enabling
[4303518.720000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: Sensor is an OV6630AE
[4303518.929000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: Device at usb-0000:00:07.2-1 registered to minor 0
[4303518.929000] usbcore: registered new driver ov511
[4303518.930000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: v1.64 for Linux 2.5 : ov511 USB Camera Driver
[4303558.465000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: No decompressor available
[4303560.229000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: No decompressor available
[4303560.918000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: No decompressor available
[4303563.210000] drivers/usb/media/ov511/ov511.c: No decompressor available

ii linux-image-2. 2.6.15-16.23 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.15 on PPr

It affects also the linux-image 2.6.27 of the Intrepid Ubuntu release

[Bubbels (bubbels)]

Same Here with a Philips TouCam (PCVC720k) Same error in the logs and no image in (the newer) Ekiga. In fact the Configuration druid shows no camera device.
Also with the Camorama application. This application reports: could not connect to /dev/video0 device

Ubuntu Dapper (Updated until 14th of March) Kernel 2.6.15-18-686

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Sorry for the late answer John. Is the bug still present in latest Dapper ? What about Edgy ?

Bubbels, Philips Toucam works out of the box on latest Dapper. However bug #56090 makes it harder in Edgy.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Joshua Dunamis (dunamis)]

The bug is still present in 2.6.27 kernel due to the ov511 module seems to be broken

[Joshua Dunamis (dunamis)]

Very strangly it works only with amsn|

[Horatiu (hc-german)]

I can confirm that the bug is still present: I just installed 9.04, and tried to use a Creative WebCam Pro, which is detected (based on the logs) by the system as: ov511: USB OV511+ video device found / ov511: model: Creative Labs WebCam 3 / ov511: Sensor is an OV7620. Using lsubs, gets the following info: ID 05a9:a511 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV511+ WebCam. There is a /dev/video0, and based on this blog: http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/install.html, it means that the driver exists. However, neither Ekiga, neither Cheese manage to work with the camera.
If anyone has suggestions (or fix), the help is very much appreciated.

[Joshua Dunamis (dunamis)]

I can finaly see the driver is now working fine in (K)ubuntu Karmic 9.10.

[Chuan Li (chuan-anh)]

I could read that ov511 no more works for Karmic: http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/

However patch (ov51x) exists for kernel 2.6.30: http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page

I managed to install ov51x on Ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-16-generic) with Cheese works fine, however I had no luck with Skype.

As in this ticket, gspca_ov519 driver patched with V4L went into kernel 2.6.32.2, however it is not part of official RC of Ubuntu 9.10.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

John Cooper, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please do not test the kernel in the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. As well, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream', and comment as to why specifically you were unable to test it.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]