Bug 476852

Summary: Webcam driver ov51x-jpeg (1.5.7) missing
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Bob Peterson <homoludens1000>
Component: KernelAssignee: Robert Schmolke <opensuse10.2>
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_hCFFy7JqgP, meissner
Version: Final   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Bob Peterson 2009-02-18 06:43:08 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.6

The webcam driver ov51x-jpeg (1.5.7) is missing from the distribution.

The driver is necessary for running, for example, several Creative Webcams.

The driver was previously included in the distribution until 11.0, but has been dropped for no clear reason (?).(See e.g.: http://packages.opensuse-community.org/index.jsp?distro=openSUSE_110&searchTerm=ov51).

Reproducible: Always

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All driver-related information can be found on this website:
http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2009-02-18 13:14:54 UTC 
It was never included iun the normal distribution.

but it still lives in the drivers:webcam repository, perhaps it currently dpoes not build there though...

assign to its packager.
Comment 2 Bob Peterson 2009-02-19 08:18:14 UTC 
Hm, shouldn't it be included in the normal distribution?

How can I figure out who's done the packaging earlier?
Comment 3 Marcus Meissner 2009-02-19 08:26:32 UTC 
the buildservice package is done by   Robert Schmolke, the bug is assigned to him already.

as to why its not included ... hmm, we could have it as KMP , but we prefer to people just get it into the mainline kernel.... Not sure what exactly stopped the inclusion as regular kmp.
Comment 4 Bob Peterson 2009-02-20 04:50:46 UTC 
I see. Thanks!
Comment 5 Forgotten User hCFFy7JqgP 2009-02-27 10:51:53 UTC 
So what will happen? What do I have to do to get the driver? (The driver had also been available for 10.3 - and one can get used to the service, since I never compiled anything myself and am at a loss at what to do.)
Comment 6 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2010-05-20 23:59:21 UTC 
Closing due to lack of response :(