Howto Get Eyetoy Webcam working for Ubuntu

[adrianmak]

Ive a fairly old qucikcam ( I guess it is logitech ) but no software can drive this cam.
the usb id is 046d:1133

[afallenhope]

I also got the whole "Unknown Symbol"... I've tried everything to appending escape chars to the module and everything. Still didn't work. So I went to rasta geek's website and followed the module assistant method. It goes like this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ov51x-jpeg-source module-assistant
sudo module-assistant -t a-i ov51x-jpeg

Or you could try my method.

wget http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/ov51x-jpeg/ov51x-jpeg-1.5.7.tar.gz
tar xvf ov51x-jpeg-1.5.7.tar.gz
sudo make install
sudo modprobe videodev
sudo modprobe i2c-core
sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x-jpeg.ko

That should work.. if worse comes to worse type:

sudo modprobe ov51x-jpeg

best of luck.
--Pierre

[Zantaskan]

Hello, I am pretty new to Linux, very very new to bash and terminal lol

I tried your steps, but I get to the part about downloading from the site, and I get a 404 not found error

heres what I get in terminal

matthew@matthew-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-'matthew-r'
[sudo] password for matthew:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-matthew-r
matthew@matthew-desktop:~$ wget http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...g-1.0.0.tar.gz
--14:53:26-- http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...g-1.0.0.tar.gz
=> `ov51x-jpeg-1.0.0.tar.gz'
Resolving www.rastageeks.org... 88.191.17.132
Connecting to www.rastageeks.org|88.191.17.132|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
14:53:27 ERROR 404: Not Found.


Any help please

[Chris Sharman]

Hello, I am pretty new to Linux, very very new to bash and terminal lol

I tried your steps, but I get to the part about downloading from the site, and I get a 404 not found error

heres what I get in terminal

matthew@matthew-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-'matthew-r'
[sudo] password for matthew:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-matthew-r

That should be `uname -r` not 'matthew-r'
uname -r is a command which gives back your kernel version, and the backticks (or grave quotes, not single quotes) get it executed & replaced in the command.

matthew@matthew-desktop:~$ wget http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...g-1.0.0.tar.gz
--14:53:26-- http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...g-1.0.0.tar.gz
=> `ov51x-jpeg-1.0.0.tar.gz'
Resolving www.rastageeks.org... 88.191.17.132
Connecting to www.rastageeks.org|88.191.17.132|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
14:53:27 ERROR 404: Not Found.

It's moved on a few versions.
Look at the folder to see what is there:
http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/ov51x-jpeg/
The current version is now:
http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...g-1.5.8.tar.gz

Chris

[syndr0]

thats awesome. anywhoooo.... yeah... i cant get mine to work on aim.com ... you know the flash chat... idk why.. that and hmmm.. ill post if i have anymore problems...you think theyd put these drivers in the module so we dont have to reput them in every upgrade...??? .. sorry,, im a n00bie to this linux stuff but its amazing and i love all the support

[HangukMiguk]

To rehash this, mine worked fine until a reboot, now it "works" except that it gives me nothing but neon colors when viewed.

Any ideas?

[Animeniac]

To rehash this, mine worked fine until a reboot, now it "works" except that it gives me nothing but neon colors when viewed.

Any ideas?

The same happens to me, I'm afraid.

[eversor88]

ok so i m new to ubuntu and its pretty sweet, and i installed this webcam when i had windows no problem. When i go trough the installation i get this error

alexander@A-top:~/ov51x-jpeg-1.5.8$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x.ko
insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/ov51x.ko': No such file or directory

how do i solve this

[Animeniac]

To rehash this, mine worked fine until a reboot, now it "works" except that it gives me nothing but neon colors when viewed.

Any ideas?

Go to System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers

Disable "ov51x USB Camera Driver, and then restart the computer if it says "Requires system restart".

Go back to Hardware Drivers and enable "ov51x USB Camera Driver" and go back to XawTV to see if it worked.

If it didn't work for you, Go to System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager and search "ov51x" and install the "ov51x-jpeg-source" package, and then disable "ov51x USB Camera Driver" (and restart the computer if required) and enable it again. At least that's what I did...

[ivia77]

ok so i m new to ubuntu and its pretty sweet, and i installed this webcam when i had windows no problem. When i go trough the installation i get this error


how do i solve this

i had the same error, this worked for me

sudo modprobe ov51x-jpeg