Howto Get Eyetoy Webcam working for Ubuntu

[jtreach]

Sorry should've mentioned it but didn't realise until I finished the last post but there are some other lines of code that need updating in the same way.

Thanks for the guide btw I got my eyetoy working!

[Mikiupdown2]

Hello, I have been following this tutorial but when I get to:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

My terminal just says:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-uname -r

What could I be doing wrong? I'm sorry if this is a silly question, but I started using Ubuntu (properly) just 3 days ago.

I am using Ubuntu 6.10.

Thank you all in advance,
From Michael.

[Arlanthir]

Is this for eyetoy silver too?
EDIT: Yes it is =X
Had to run xawtv with -nodga, though

[xpod]

Thanks for the guide....

Just set it up on my girls machne and it all works great
Had a couple of minor issues but somehow it still works so i`m not complaining.

Good stuff!!

[nitewing98]

Hoping someone here can help. I've got an Argus PC300 cam that also uses the Omnivision chipset. When I bring up camorama, I get a flickering black and white square, no real picture. It's obvious that it's getting SOMETHING, though.

I went through the instructions in this thread, but when I enter:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x.ko

I get:

insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-386/extra/ov51x.ko': -1 Operation not permitted

Similarly, when I enter:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov519_decomp.ko

I get:

insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-386/extra/ov519_decomp.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

I'm using Feisty, and DID remember to remove the #includes from the .c files (as mentioned in the earlier post).

dmesg says this:

[ 66.652753] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 66.873511] /home/Shared/Installers/ov51x-jpeg-1.0.0/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: USB OV518+ video device found
[ 66.876480] /home/Shared/Installers/ov51x-jpeg-1.0.0/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: Device revision 2
[ 66.912468] /home/Shared/Installers/ov51x-jpeg-1.0.0/ov51x-jpeg-core.c: Compression required with OV518...enabling

Anyone got a clue?

[ghandi2]

I have the Namai version of the Eyetoy and when I tried your howto after d/l'ing a different build of the ov51x I got from here:


http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/download.html#ov51x

I tried to run the following out of the directory I extracted the package to and got the following output in terminal. Any suggestions?

sudo make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/build M=/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic'
CC [M] /home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.o
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:207: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:209: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:211: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:213: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:216: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:220: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:223: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:227: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:229: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:231: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:234: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:236: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:239: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:242: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:244: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:246: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:248: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:250: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:252: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:254: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:256: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:258: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:260: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:262: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:264: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:267: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:270: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:272: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:274: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:276: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:278: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:280: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:282: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:285: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:288: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:290: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:292: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:294: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:8464: error: unknown field ‘owner’ specified in initializer
/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.c:8464: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy/ov51x.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ghandi2/Eyetoy] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[williamts99]

Yes, this might want to be updated for
http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...g-1.5.0.tar.gz

[k3v1nf]

i using ubuntu Feisty Fawn

i did that
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

wget http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/...eg/ov51x-jpeg-1.5.1.tar.gz

tar -xvf ov51x-jpeg-1.5.1.tar.gz

cd ov51x-jpeg-1.5.1

sudo make install
sudo modprobe videodev
sudo modprobe i2c_core

and when i put that line sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x.ko

its tell me that
kevin@kevin-desktop:~/ov51x-jpeg-1.5.1$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x.ko
insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/extra/ov51x.ko': No such file or directory
kevin@kevin-desktop:~/ov51x-jpeg-1.5.1$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x.ko
insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/extra/ov51x.ko': No such file or directory

what can i do?
srry for mi english

[patsfan]

i know im stupid but what is uname -r mean?

[Chris Sharman]

The rastageeks website has changed - the ov51x-jpeg download has moved/changed.
I used the 1.5.1 version.
The tar & cd commands following need changing appropriately - they don't refer to the version just wget'ed anyway.
I changed the insmod commands too:
$ ls /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-386/extra/
ov51x-jpeg.ko
$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ov51x-jpeg.ko

Camorama gives me a working camera, with 3 images replicated horizontally.
The red light wasn't lit to show the camera was on.
Kopete hangs - I stopped it, but now nothing can see the camera.

This is on Edgy Eft
Any help appreciated - rebooting now to hopefully recover camera access.

Thanks
Chris