Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

From: Martin Michlmayr
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 14:38:51 EST


* Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@xxxxxx> [2006-03-08 11:51]:
> > linux installed, i go digicam not working on linux, webcam not
> I thought cameras in general did usb masstorage thing and thus
> worked with anything?

It's fairly common for new cameras, but it's definitely not the case
in general. There's a program called gphoto2 that can talk to a
number of cameras that don't use USB mass storage, though.
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Martin Michlmayr
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