Re: Activating videodev module

Ted Garrett (teddygee@visi.net)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:14:15 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:

>>Also, since the kernel recognizes the color quickcam during plug-n-play
>>probing, is there a way I can have the appropriate modules primed
>>automatically?
>
> Not yet. The kernel has the ability to go out and read PnP data from parallel
> port devices but as far as I know nobody has yet written the user-space
> support to actually do anything useful with it. Red Hat seemed to be
> interested in this kind of thing at one point though they were concentrating
> initially on printers.

That's all well and good, but where do I find documentation on how to get
the videodev module to accept c-qcam as it's video capture driver? And
how do I tell it to use a given minor number with that mapping?

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