[sane-devel] v4l and digicams

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:19:07 +0200


Hi,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:16:01PM -0400, Bob Lockie wrote:
> 2. I am trying to get sane working with my supported webcam.

Use the latest snapshot from http://www.mostang.com/sane/, that fixes
some bugs concerning detection of v4l devices. Don't expect too much
from that backend.

> scanimage -d v4l:/dev/video0
> gives:
> scanimage: open of device v4l:/dev/video0 failed: Invalid argument

SANE_DEBUG_V4L=255 scanimage -L should print why it doesn't work.

Bye,
  Henning