Creative webcam NX pro

LMCBoy · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:09 am Post subject: Creative webcam NX pro

Hello,

I just bought a creative webcam NX pro for videoconferencing with gnomemeeting. Following some posts in this forum, I recompiled my kernel (2.4.20-gentoo-r4) with V4L support and the OV511 USB webcam driver.

I rebooted, and then did "modprobe ov511". This resulted in the log messages:

LMCBoy · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:46 am Post subject:

Well, an update, but no success yet.

I went to http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/ to get the latest ov511 driver. I tried both the latest stable (1.65) and development (2.27) versions. Both returned dozens of "unresolved symbol" messages when running "make install". Also, if I tried to modprobe either version, it failed with "unresolved symbol" errors. Following the FAQ on the ov511 site, I recompiled my kernel to ignore module version numbers. After that, I can modprobe the 1.65 version, but the 2.27 version still fails with unresolved symbols.

In any case, the result after modprobing the 1.65 version is the same as it was with the version that is included in the kernel (1.61): it modprobes without error, but there's no /dev/video*, and if I try to run xawtv or v4l-conf, I get "can't open /dev/video0: No such device".

I'd appreciate any hints or ideas.
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LMCBoy

Cosmosis · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 59

Hey, I've got the same webcam, if you get it working be sure to let me know how because I'm clueless about this

Cosmosis · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 59

I did the same thing as you but when I try to install OV511\OV518 I get...

ov511_core.c:1677: error: unknown field `inc_use' specified in initializer
ov511_core.c:1677: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
ov511_core.c:1678: error: unknown field `dec_use' specified in initializer
make: *** [ov511_core.o] Error 1

Jux · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:58 am Post subject: Hi

Any updates here?
I 've bought the same cam and I'm frightened it was a wrong decision ...

Thanks
Jux

Rikkert · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 20

I have this webcam too; can't get it to work neither, but there seems to be a project going on to support this webcam (and some more webcams that use the same chip)

http://zc0302.sourceforge.net/zc0302.php

Just to let you guys know

Jux · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:41 am Post subject:

Hi

I've already added this project at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ where you can find a good overview of linux usb-devs.

I gave back my cam and bought a Philips ToUCam Fun II - works perfect with camstream ...

Ciao, Jux

ducklair · n00b Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Italy

the new zc030z driver (0.01, stable cvs version), http://zc0302.sourceforge.net/zc0302.php, works very well with mine nx pro: make sure your user is in "video" group before start using webcam
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The_Wounded · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 25

I used to use that driver you guys are talking about but its maintained badly a way better driver is the spca5xx driver wich is maintained better and support a lot of creative webcams [url]http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html [/url]