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[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:47:38AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:

> But after plugging it in to the USB port, I get:
> 
> Jul 15 11:39:09 colina kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
> Jul 15 11:39:09 colina kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> Jul 15 11:39:09 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: USB OV518 video device found
> Jul 15 11:39:09 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Device revision 1
> Jul 15 11:39:09 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Compression required with OV518...enabling
> Jul 15 11:39:09 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Sensor is an OV6630AF
> Jul 15 11:39:10 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: Device at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 registered to minor 0
> Jul 15 11:39:10 colina kernel: usbcore: registered new driver ov511
> Jul 15 11:39:10 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: v1.64 for Linux 2.5 : ov511 USB Camera Driver
> Jul 15 11:41:06 colina kernel: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c: No decompressor available
> 
> The last message is repeated whenever I press the Detect Devices
> button in Gnomemeeting configuration, I think.
> 
> What else do I have to do?

I have had success with an ov511-driven device by grabbing the
experimental 2.27 driver from:

  http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/download.html

and adding this line to /etc/modprobe.conf:

install ov511 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ov511 >/dev/null 2>&1 && /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ovcamchip >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

Tim.
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