[sane-devel] AGFA Spanscan E50 USB

Bob Lockie bjlockie@lockie.ca
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:10:47 -0400


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 in source code or by modprobe options.
>
I'm confused why v4l knows which USB devices are video devices.
Is the ID's of my webcam in the v4l driver?

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