[wellylug] dse webcams

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 19:29 +1300, Jamie Baddeley wrote:

>  am thinking of this:
> > > http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/439b95d8062c1882273fc0a87f99071a/Product/View/XH5096
> > > 
> > > anyone had this one going?
> > 
> > This one's a bit easier; I've had it working for some time. It uses an
> > ov519 chip. The stock kernel driver for the ov51x series at this time
> > still does not support it (frames are actual JPEGs rather than standard
> > video format), but there is a patched driver available that works
> > beautifully with the DSE model.
> > 
> > http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page
> > 
> > Also the built-in microphone seems to be configured just fine as a
> > standard USB audio device.
> 
> That was the conclusion I came to after searching for a while. Of course
> today rastageeks is not reachable (arrrgghhh!) so am now searching for a
> mirror. If anyone has a copy of the tgz then I'd appreciate it.
> Meanwhile I pace the floor.

Following up, works perfectly. Easy to install - make sure you've got
the kernel-headers installed and make, make install & modprobe.

Now the kids can see their Nana.

:-)

jamie