[sane-devel] AGFA Spanscan E50 USB

Bob Lockie bjlockie@lockie.ca
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:02:11 -0400


Oliver Schwartz wrote:

>>Why is there no manufacturer and product string for my webcam?
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>Ask the manufacturer of your webcam.
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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?
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>Your webcam isn't handled by the scanner module. In a later kernel version you 
>hopefully won't have to supply the IDs. Until the IDs of newer scanners are 
>added to the kernel, you have to supply them manually.
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Great explanation.
Where in the kernel are the IDs?

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