On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:14:58PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > > Having a comprehensive list of supported chipsets would be useful, though. If > some text-parsing wizard out there would like to write such a program, it would > be interesting. now if only manufacturers would put the chipsets on the outside of the packages... or heck, even stuck to the same chipset for each model number... the compatibility issue is truly a nightmare. I bought a usb webcam that was supposed (by model number to work) but it didn't, why? because they had changed the usb device-id. nothing else changed, so far as I could tell. I found the module version (upstream) that supported the newer camera, and grepped it a bit. the only difference? it listed the pci device-id. How are module writers expected to keep up with these kinds of gratuitous changes? turns out I could have modified the earlier source my self and put in the one line that referenced the device-id and had a working module anyway. at elast that's how I read it. A
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