[Bug 37739] Re: Creative Labs Webcam Plus (Model PD0040) doesn't work out of the box

[Joori]

After months of endless googling and compiling without much success i
have finally got my ov51x camera to work in ubuntu gutsy! For the
record, it's a Creative Video Blaster Webcam (PD0040). I couldn't get it
to run in feisty before i upgraded to gutsy so i don't know if it will
work on feisty the same as it does in gutsy but i suppose you could give
it a try?

I don't know exactly why it worked this time seeing as i did EXACTLY
what rastageeks website suggested. No luck in loading the camera despite
it being picked up but always getting 'Failed to open device:
/dev/video0' on any application that i try to load the webcam with. Both
'lsusb' and 'dmesg' showed the camera and relevant modules loaded but i
would always get a 'No decompressor" error in 'dmesg'

This time tho, after following http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-
jpeg/index.php/Ov51xJpegHackedInstall for the umpteenth time I have now
got the bloody thing to work and am able to see my camera and the images
it's capturing through almost any application.

This is what i did. (note this is the same as what is listed on the
rastageeks.org website)

1) sudo rmmod ov511

2) cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ubuntu/media

3) sudo rm -rf ov511/

4) wget http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/debian/source/ov51x-
jpeg_1.5.2.orig.tar.gz

5) mkdir ov511 (i made this directory in my /home/joori dir)

6) extract ov51x-jpeg_1.5.2.orig.tar.gz into newly created ov511
directory

7) cd ov511/

8) make

9) su -

10) make install

The only thing i didn't do was 'modprobe ov51x-jpeg' and 'modprobe
videodev' and 'insmod ./ov51x-jpeg.ko' as i did not need to do this once
the driver finished compiling.

After this, i fired up camstream and hey presto! i can now see my device
in the drop down menu and upon selecting, it started to work. Previously
i would just get an empty grey window open and no camera listed in the
'Devices' drop down menu or it would just bug out and say 'Failed to
open device: /dev/video0'

Xawtv still doesn't like the camera/driver but who cares really,
everything else works :)

Here is my 'lsmod'

joori at vokan:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05a9:0518 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV518 WebCam
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 049f:000e Compaq Computer Corp. Internet Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
joori at vokan:~$ 


Here is my 'dmesg'

[44936.539933] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[44936.751740] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[44936.796179] /home/joori/ov511/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: USB OV518 video device found
[44936.798191] /home/joori/ov511/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: Device revision 9
[44936.833570] /home/joori/ov511/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: Compression required with OV518...enabling
[44939.334241] /home/joori/ov511/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: Sensor is an OV66308AE
[44940.460880] /home/joori/ov511/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: Device at usb-0000:00:13.2-1 registered to minor 0
[44940.461155] usbcore: registered new interface driver ov51x
[44940.461316] /home/joori/ov511/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: 1.5.2 : ov51x USB Camera Driver

Now everything looks the same as it did before when the driver wasn't
working with the notable exception that i had a screen full of  'No
decompressor available' error messages in my dmesg. As you can see this
is now gone and the driver is working perfectly!

I tried running the camera on amsn but i just get a bunch of
multicoloured green and pink imagery and no viable image can be seen. It
doesn't really worry me as im absolutely stoked that i got it to run in
the first place. What was strange to me was that when running VMWare
Workstation 6 and powering on my Windows XP SP2 OEM Virtual Machine, I
could use the camera no dramas. It was picked up by vmtools and
installed via the original driver cd i have for the camera. Windows Live
Messenger picked up the camera and it worked no dramas.. Camfrog did the
same. Everything within the virtual machine seemed to pick up the camera
so it was really bugging me why ubuntu applications couldn't locally
pick it up.

Anyway, I hope this helps those who still can't get their cameras to
work!

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Creative Labs Webcam Plus (Model PD0040) doesn't work out of the box
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