


1.3.1.1 Identify device using installation instructions for Windows.1.3.1 Indentify the device before buying.I have a printer connected to the rear port.

I only have the front USB ports available. I am a new Linux Mint user and have a Dell computer. Does anyone know for sure? Or, if my guess is right, why does it make any difference whether it's a root or hub port? It can't be bandwidth because there's nothing else plugged in except a keyboard and mouse.ĭid you ever get it to work on your front USB ports. I vaguely remember hearing about devices that don't work if not plugged into a root USB port. I am guessing this is because there is some kind of built-in hub which is connected to the front ports, whereas only the rear-mounted ones are root ports on the motherboard. When I plug it into one of the ones on the back, it works fine. I had been using one of the front-mounted ones (it's a tower PC) and this didn't work. I got the capture device to work on the Mint system by plugging it into a different USB port. I don't know much about kernel modules and I'm brand new to Mint, so would really appreciate any help on this! On Debian, when modprobe loads the usbtv module, the following dependency modules are loaded:Īlan Thew wrote:It seems that the different OS (Debian/Mint) and the missing kernel modules were just red herrings. PAL support, which I need) under Debian, it still crashes my Mint system as before. usb/usbtv and although this gives access to the newer features (e.g.

The 3.12 kernel does have a slightly newer version of usbtv.ko (the kernel module for usbtv), but in fact I have manually compiled the latest version from the source at. Has anyone had any success getting an Eas圜AP or other device driven by the usbtv module to work in Mint? If I Open Capture Device in vlc and choose /dev/video0, the composite video input appears as expected on Debian, but in Mint, vlc just stops responding (and cannot even be killed from a different tty) and the computer cannot be shut down - it hangs without ever powering off. When I plug it in to either system, /dev/video0 is created. There is a kernel module called usbtv which is the driver for this device.īasically, my problem is that it works on Debian but apparently not in Mint. These exist in various clones with different chips in them mine is one of the ones which lsusb reports as Bus XXX Device XXX: ID 1b71:3002 (Manufacturer: Fushicai Product: usbtv007). I have a cheap Eas圜AP USB video capture device. I have two Linux systems, one running Debian testing (3.12 kernel) and one running Mint 16 Cinnamon (3.11 kernel).
