OVCam Drivers for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels
More thorough installation instructions are available at:
http://ovcam.org/ov511/install.html
Simplified Installation Instructions:
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR 2.6 KERNELS:
The OVCam drivers use the new 2.6 modular build process. You must have
read/write access to your kernel source tree. If not, log in as root before
running the following commands.
make clean
make
(log in as root)
make install
Loading the modules:
As of version 2.21, the camera chip code is in a separate module (ovcamchip).
If you have a camera, this must be loaded either before or after loading the
ov511 or ovfx2 drivers:
modprobe ovcamchip
or, if you have a video-capture box from Lifeview (USB CapView):
modprobe saa7111-new
If the box also has a TV tuner (Lifeview USB LifeTV):
modprobe tda7313 (audio chip driver)
insmod tuner.o (TV tuner driver. This is different from the
tuner.o that's in the kernel)
Finally, load the driver itself. For OV511, OV511+, OV518, and OV518+ cameras:
modprobe ov511
or, for the Orange Micro iBot2:
modprobe ovfx2
Compression support:
- For OV511/OV511+ cameras: Compression support is built into ov511.o. You
must load ov511.o with the "compress=1" module parameter to enable it.
- For OV518/OV518+ cameras: Compression support is built into ov511.o and
enabled by default.
- For OVFX2 cameras: Compression is not supported by the camera (USB 2 is fast
enough to not need it).
Please see ov511.txt for more information.