[cpia] CU See Me Cam & /dev/video

[sbertin@mindspring.com]

On 15 Jan, Michael wrote:
> I think I've found that my problem is that my printer port isn't of the
> ECP type. It does look like it works in either bidirectional or epp/spp
> modes. Is there a module option to make it use those modes instead? I know
> the camera works on the same computer under windows so the parallel port
> should work for it. Thanks.

If your port is detected as TRISTATE by the Linux kernel, then it can be
used with kernel 2.4.  ECP transfers are done in software if the
hardware can't do it directly with the new kernel.

Scott J. Bertin
sbertin@mindspring.com