need help with Webcam hercules classic

[Eugene33]

Hi,
I'm running in some problem with my new webcam Hercules Classic, so any help would be quite welcome.
this web cam should use the omnivision chipset so I installed the OV511 drivers.
From this page http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html there is a reference to an OV519 for this specific camera
lspci:

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00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

this is my Tuner card but no references to the webcam
lsmod

lsmod:
Module Size Used by
ov511 101532 0
ovcamchip 27592 0

My kernel has i2c enabled as modules and the ov511 too and I download the drivers and intalled them
when I plug the webcam :

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usb 9-2.6: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 9-2.6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
usb 9-2.6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
usb 9-2.6: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
usb 9-2.6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
usb 9-2.6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
usb 9-2.6: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
usb 9-2.6: device not accepting address 10, error -32
usb 9-2.6: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
usb 9-2.6: device not accepting address 11, error -32
/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32/ovcamchip_core.c: v2.32 : OV camera chip I2C driver
usbcore: registered new driver ov511
/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32/ov511_core.c: v2.32 : ov511 USB Camera Driver (V4L2 disabled)

I used those ressources:
linuxtv http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Webcams
linux OVcam drivers http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/

Portage 2.1_rc1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-rc4 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.17-rc4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+

[phsdv]

Eugene33, did you make any progress on getting the Hercules Classic webcam working? I am playing also with it, but not much succes yet. I am using kernel 2.6.17-r4 on a i686 P3.

[Eugene33]

Sorry no progress, still not working.......Tried with the last drivers http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/download.html#ov51x but ov511 or ov 519 failed with "make"

/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32/ov511_core.c:5882: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32/ov511_core.c:5883: warning: implicit declaration of function 'video_device_release'
/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32/ov511_core.c:5885: warning: implicit declaration of function 'video_unregister_device'
make[2]: *** [/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32/ov511_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/ov511-2.32/ov511-2.32] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo'
make: *** [default] Error 2

Hummm maybe just maybe if you didn't upgrade to a 2.6.18 kernel you may try this
http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/in ... kedInstall

[phsdv]

I will try the hacked ov519 driver later his week, thanks for the link

In the meantime I downgraded to kernel 2.6.15 and was able to compile the ov51x drivers ov51x-1.65-1.12-mark.tar.bz2. When I load these, my webcam is recognized and the /dev/v4l/video0 is made. Unfortunately the driver is not working correctly. I do not get a picture out of it. In the /var/log/messages I do get many errors about end of frame detected without start, or something similar.