DaveinSpain Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Anyone know where I can find this driver? Tried downloading the relevant driver from rastageeks.org but can't get it to work properly in 2008. (3 images on screen in monochrome only) USB Id: 041e:4052 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Would you please open a terminal and post the output of dmesg |grep -i camera and (as root) lsmod |grep ov for us to see? According to the docs at rastageeks.org, this is working with the 2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv kernel, using a module compiled from svn://rastageeks.org/svn/ov51x-jpeg/trunk SVN revision 96. Have you tried that or a more recent revision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Check if your webcam (or chipset) is in this list: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I have exactly the same webcam (Creative Live! Vista IM, USB id: 041e:4052) and have managed to make it work partially with the rastageegs.org driver: http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index...IM_Live_Support I got it to work with mplayer with this command Mplayer: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 But no luck with skype. Skype recognizes this cam (it can be selected from the pull-down list), but shows only a black test image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Check if your webcam (or chipset) is in this list: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html No, it isn't there. It shows only USB id's 041e:4051 and 041e:4053 (but not 4052). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frank Peelo Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 I got it to work with mplayer with this command Mplayer: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 But no luck with skype. Skype recognizes this cam (it can be selected from the pull-down list), but shows only a black test image. Hi Dude67 did you find a solution to this? I have exactly the same thing. Click on the Test button, and I just have a black rectangle. The black rectangle does not get updated: if I drag another window in front of it, the image from the dragged window remains in that rectangle after the window is removed (instead of the rectangle going black again). I did get a different image once, when the first thing I did after starting up was to go into Skype and look at the video options. I got a green screen with some noise, which apparently is what is seen as my video at the other end of a Skype link. But after running mplayer as shown above, the rectangle was not updated. I think this may be a video update problem rather than a webcam problem (the green screen is my webcam issue). I'm using an ATi Radeon 7000 board with the freen "Radeon 9250 or older" driver. There does seem to be hope for us, however. A post by "coverup" at https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...view=getnewpost (post #10) indicates that Skype can work on Mandriva. Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 Nope, sorry. I haven't bothered with this lately. The only time I have made use of skype video call was with my wife whenever I'm on the road. And if it doesn't work with a push of a button in Mandriva, I tell my wife to turn on WinXP and get skype from windows. But hopefully some day I can get the video functionality in skype operating with Mandriva as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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