ov511 camera not responding

[rounin]

I've used an ov511-based camera for quite some time, and yesterday when I plugged it in it woudln't work. This is the first time I've tried it under Gentoo. There are a multitude of problems:

modprobe ov511 loads the module, but /dev/video0 doesn't exist (I've used ./MAKEDEV, but it's still not there)

Compiling usb-ohci as a module and lsmod'ing shows that both usb-ohci and ov511 are unused upon loading

The camera's also stopped getting power from the USB port, which it did when usb-ohci was compiled into the kernel. This is probably because usb-ohci is unused even when I load it.

Is there a magical Gentoo command that I've missed here? USE="dontfuckwithov511" perhaps?

[amigadave]

I've got an OV511 as well, I'm using the latest stable 1.65 driver from http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511 and before I use my camera (through xawtv or whatever) the module is listed as unused. As soon as I fire up an application that uses it, the webcam fires into life though. You probably don't have a /dev/video0 entry because devsfd will only create the entry when an application requests it (I think). I have my USB support compiled into the kernel, don't know whether it makes a difference as I've never had it as a module though, and I'm using UHCI support as well.

[Cr0t]

I am using the Kernel drives and those work just fine for me.
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[rounin]

Ah, yeah, it automagically started working for me too, now. The camera had been wet, so it might just have dried up and started working.

Thanks for the advice, though.