gspca_main gspca_ov519, please add recent v4l patch to include Creative 041e:4067 webcam

[MMarking]

The Creative eyetoy webcam was patched to work in v4l in October 2009, but doesn't appear to have made it into Ubuntu Karmic becuase modprobe gspca_ov519 doesn't recognize the camera. Please add this trivial patch (link below) since the pre-Karmic ov51x-jpeg hacked source from rastageeks no longer compiles in the 2.6.31+ kernels. Thanks.

http://<email address hidden>/msg05497.html

$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 041e:4067 Creative Technology, Ltd

[MMarking (cpt-mocha)]

Here is the proper link to the patch:

http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/a130fb09f7bafe1ea0e9ace9d813a92327d704ec

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The 2.6.32.2 kernel PPA at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32.2/ contains the following comment in the changes file:

V4L/DVB (13116): gspca - ov519: Webcam 041e:4067 added.

[MMarking (cpt-mocha)]

The camera was working in 2.6.31-17-generic and 2.6.31-18-generic and continued to work in 2.6.31-19-generic. But now I just changed to 2.6.31-19-generic-pae and the camera no longer gets probed. I think the patch was not applied to the pae kernel.

Under the regular generic kernel /var/log/messages and dmesg looks like this:

Feb 3 19:00:35 mocha-c2d kernel: [ 13.848845] gspca: main v2.6.0 registered
Feb 3 19:00:35 mocha-c2d kernel: [ 14.132936] gspca: probing 041e:4067
Feb 3 19:00:35 mocha-c2d kernel: [ 15.848490] gspca: probe ok
Feb 3 19:00:35 mocha-c2d kernel: [ 15.848502] gspca: probing 041e:4067
Feb 3 19:00:35 mocha-c2d kernel: [ 15.848511] gspca: probing 041e:4067

Under the pae kernel there is nothing. If you try to manually insert gspca_main and gspca_ov519 I just get:

Feb 6 21:13:46 mocha-c2d kernel: [ 419.848262] gspca: main v2.6.0 registered

Please apply the patch to the PAE kernels as well. Thanks!!

[MMarking (cpt-mocha)]

FYI, I just updated this Karmic box to 2.6.31-20-generic-pae and the camera is working again. Thanks!

$ dmesg |grep gspca
[ 37.793703] gspca: main v2.6.0 registered
[ 37.827035] gspca: probing 041e:4067
[ 40.126624] gspca: probe ok

[Angelos Vlassopoulos (avlass)]

I have a Creative 041e:4052 webcam that used to work with the ov51x-jpeg hacked source from rastageeks.

I am currently running kernel 2.6.32-24

Here is what I get from dmesg

$ dmesg |grep gspca
[ 7.777906] gspca: main v2.7.0 registered
[ 7.780260] gspca: probing 041e:4052
[ 12.891900] gspca: probe ok

It does not work with skype. The light indicator on the camera flashes momentarily and then nothing.

Is this normal, am I doing something wrong or did something got out of place again?

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Angelos - this bug is fixed. You have different hardware. Please file a new bug.

[MMarking (cpt-mocha)]

@angelos

Try running skype like this in a terminal:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

You might have to install the package libv4l-0 first.

[Angelos Vlassopoulos (avlass)]

Ok, I understand it's a skype thing and has nothing to do with this bug report.

Thanks MMarking this really worked.

Since I use the 64-bit version of Ubuntu I had to amend the line you wrote to:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype