On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:59:14AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote: Keywords: QuickCam Express, STV0602, xawtv, digital camera, webcam, getting unsupported hardware working > > So today, I decided to try some other things. I tried poking around the > mod_quickcam source. I noticed the code checks the vendor and product ID > codes so I compared them with the values returned by `usbview`.... It > turned out the product ID wasn't correct (the code had 840, but usbview > reports 870). I modified the code, with some caution. > > Note: If the product ID is different, then the chances are I have a > different model that won't work with the mod_quickcam module... but > hopefully they'll be similar in design and hopefully I'll only need to > tweak mod_quickcam only a little to get it to work. > > But the modification didn't do anything, so I put some "printk(...)" > statements to figure out where the code was going and where it wasn't > (printk prints statements in /var/log/messages). It turned out there was > another place where 840 was hard-coded, so I changed that to 870 as well.
Yet more proof that magic numbers are pure evil. Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
