Hi, you must take a look to http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/ to be sure at you have the last release of the driver for your kernell. I get the same problem and i have installed the driver from this page and all is going fine now. I have SuSE8.0 but the errors messages i get was the same. If you have a ov518, it's the same driver but you must use the decomp option. The doc on the site is very well done. Dominique Michel Gaston Acuse wrote:
Hello, I have installed Suse 7.3. with a webcam usb that work with ov511 driver. When a run xawtv happend this:
xawtv This is xawtv-3.61, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18) can't open /dev/video0: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device no video grabber device available
insmod videodev Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.o
before of this i did: then... insmod ov511 Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/usb/ov511.o and...
ls -l /dev/video0 crw-rw-rw- 1 ga users 81, 0 Sep 23 2001 /dev/video0
with these lines in my /etc/modules.conf #alias char-major-81 bttv alias char-major-81 ov511 alias char-major-180 usbcore
and the last lines of "dmesg" are:
dmesg .. .. .. Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x572/0x1) is not claimed by any active driver.hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected Adding Swap: 1309256k swap-space (priority 42) eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Linux video capture interface: v1.00 usb.c: registered new driver ov511 ov511.c: v1.60 : ov511 USB Camera Driver
Can you help me? Thank you in advance!