Hi,
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:10:47PM -0400, Bob Lockie wrote:
> I'm confused why v4l knows which USB devices are video devices.
> Is the ID's of my webcam in the v4l driver?
I don't really know. There are two possibilities: Either the USB
driver of your camera knows all the ids that it can supp
Hi,
> >>Why do I have to provide the vendor and product to modprobe, I don't =
for
> >> my webcam?
> >
> >Your webcam isn't handled by the scanner module. In a later kernel ver=
sion
> > you hopefully won't have to supply the IDs. Until the IDs of newer
> > scanners are added to the kernel, you ha
Hi,
> I'm trying to get an AGFA Spanscan E50 USB scanner to work.
> It didn't right out of the box so I have some learning to do.
>
> What is the generic USB driver that is mentioned?
The generic USB driver is the driver for your USB chipset. There are basi=
cally=20
two kinds: UHCI (Intel, Via)
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:24:45AM -0400, Bob Lockie wrote:
> What is the generic USB driver that is mentioned?
> I configured USB scanner support into the kernel, it works as a module.
That's the correct one, I guess. There are some other scanner drivers
for specific (e.g. SCSI-over-USB) sca
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
>>Why do I have to provide the vendor and product to modprobe, I don't for my
>>webcam?
>>
>>
>
>Because the scanner driver doesn't know your scanner yet. Ther is no
>USB scanner calss so the driver must be told every vendor/product id
>that is a scanner. Either i
Oliver Schwartz wrote:
>>Why is there no manufacturer and product string for my webcam?
>>
>>
>
>Ask the manufacturer of your webcam.
>
I don't have to ask.
Creative must have save $0.01 by omitting it.
>>Why do I have to provide the vendor and product to modprobe, I don't for my
>>webcam?
>>
I'm trying to get an AGFA Spanscan E50 USB scanner to work.
It didn't right out of the box so I have some learning to do.
What is the generic USB driver that is mentioned?
I configured USB scanner support into the kernel, it works as a module.
I am using the CVS version of SANE and the 20020926 sn
