Bryce
Bryce replied to the topic 'Meade LPI-G (monochrome) support?' in the forum. 7 years ago

@geehalel:

Thanks for the tip. For the sake of the next person googling this, I need to report that I tried to add the IDs and uvcvideo reported "no valid video chain found". Relevant snippets (btw: the structure of the /sys filesystem seems to have changed a little in kernel 4.4.x)

spiffster usb # echo 0549 e004 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/uvcvideo/new_id
spiffster usb # dmesg | tail
[62262.346859] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[62262.805401] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0549, idProduct=e004
[62262.805411] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[62262.805416] usb 3-1: Product: USB2.0 Camera
[62262.805420] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: TT
[62262.807702] uvcvideo: Found UVC 0.00 device USB2.0 Camera (0549:e004)
[62262.808867] uvcvideo: No valid video chain found.
spiffster usb # lsusb
...
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0549:e004 Pixera Corp. 
...
spiffster usb # v4l2-ctl --list-devices
Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD (usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.4):
	/dev/video0

I'll try googling around Pixera cameras, but I suspect that I'm going to have to lug along a Windows machine.

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