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Thomas Kaiser
ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li
Sat Feb 7 10:43:44 UTC 2009
alan c wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Raquel wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Like I said, it's the hardware. It's not a coincidence that you both
>> have fairly new machines.
>
> Yes, and just to explain more fully to newcomers, many manufacturers
> do not cooperate well (or at all) with the Linux community to allow
> suitable drivers to be created alongside new models. However, the
> Linux community uses a lot of effort to create as many drivers as
> possible asap using all sorts of techniques, although the work can
> take months or more.
You are absolutely right.
Writing drivers without any documentation is a challenge!
It took me over one year to find the decompression algorithm for the
Pixart PAC7302 based webcams.
Thomas
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