Mounting a USB camera

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:29 PM +0000 1/10/06, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> >Is there anyway (other than opening it up) to find the chipset of a
>> >camera like mine?
>>
>> You gave the vendor and product IDs as Vendor=0979 ProdID=0224.  Google
>> around for them.  The numbers on the chips may not be of any use anyway.
>> Your camera uses a vendor-specific protocol.
>
>It's a TDC-15 100k pixel camera if that's of any use.

Probably not.  They could use that brand on various chipsets, and the same
chipset could have different firmware and require different drivers..  The
Vendor and Product IDs are what to go by.

>The company that
>makes it does have a driver, but guess who it's not for :-(

It's for the larger 90% of the market, right? 8:)


>Does FC ship with anything I can modprobe and use?

I think it unlikely, as there are hundreds of different cameras, each
requiring its own custom driver.  Only the cameras that conform to USB
Class standards are likely to have any support.  Google around for the
Vendor and Product IDs.  Any Linux driver that could work will list the
Vendor and Product ID you have, but, as those are hex numbers, they might
list them in different form.
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