[cpia] ReEPP (as opposed to ECP) parport support for cpia_pp ?

[Duncan Haldane]

Hi 

I was tying to test the 2.5.44 cpia code with the Creative WebCam II (paralell
port) camera, but the machine I set 2.5.44 up on only supports
PCSPP and EPP paralel port modes.

The cpia_pp code only seems to support ECP and TRISTATE parport modes.

The Webcam Works fine using windows, but not under linux with ether the 2.4.x
or 2.5.x cpia drivers, because the "paralel port is nor ECP-capable".

Presumably it *could* work with EPP protocol, but none of the original
developers had an EPP parport?  is TRISTATE a subset of EPP that would work?

Would it be easy to add EPP support to cpia_pp.c?  (I am not really
interested in running an obsolete camera on an  EPP parport, but I could
test it)

Duncan




On 23-Oct-2002 Nick Holloway wrote:
> I've committed a couple of changes to the cpia driver in the module-v4l2
> directory over the last few days.
> 
> The first was a fix for some unmatched down/up calls on a couple of the
> camera semaphores.  This caused ioctl to hang.
> 
> The second was a fix to ensure the module counts for cpia_pp and cpia_usb
> are maintained when the camera is opened and closed.  This prevents them
> being unloaded when the camera was in use.
> 
> The parport cpia camera now works for me with the 2.5.44 kernel (Creative
> WebCam II).  If somebody has the USB camera, this version needs to
> be tested.
> 
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Date: 25-Oct-2002
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