5.1. USB drivers

The USB boards are identified by an identification called USB ID.

The lsusb command allows identifying the USB IDs:

$ lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 015: ID 046d:082d Logitech, Inc. HD Pro Webcam C920
Bus 001 Device 074: ID 2040:b131 Hauppauge
Bus 001 Device 075: ID 2013:024f PCTV Systems nanoStick T2 290e
...

Newer camera devices use a standard way to expose themselves as such, via USB Video Class. Those cameras are automatically supported by the uvc-driver.

Older cameras and TV USB devices uses USB Vendor Classes: each vendor defines its own way to access the device. This section contains card lists for such vendor-class devices.

While this is not as common as on PCI, sometimes the same USB ID is used by different products. So, several media drivers allow passing a card= parameter, in order to setup a card number that would match the correct settings for an specific product type.

The current supported USB cards (not including staging drivers) are listed below1.

1

some of the drivers have sub-drivers, not shown at this table. In particular, gspca driver has lots of sub-drivers, for cameras not supported by the USB Video Class (UVC) driver, as shown at gspca card list.

Driver

Name

airspy

AirSpy

au0828

Auvitek AU0828

b2c2-flexcop-usb

Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC USB

cpia2

CPiA2 Video For Linux

cx231xx

Conexant cx231xx USB video capture

dvb-as102

Abilis AS102 DVB receiver

dvb-ttusb-budget

Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova - USB devices

dvb-usb-a800

AVerMedia AverTV DVB-T USB 2.0 (A800)

dvb-usb-af9005

Afatech AF9005 DVB-T USB1.1

dvb-usb-af9015

Afatech AF9015 DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-af9035

Afatech AF9035 DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-anysee

Anysee DVB-T/C USB2.0

dvb-usb-au6610

Alcor Micro AU6610 USB2.0

dvb-usb-az6007

AzureWave 6007 and clones DVB-T/C USB2.0

dvb-usb-az6027

Azurewave DVB-S/S2 USB2.0 AZ6027

dvb-usb-ce6230

Intel CE6230 DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-cinergyT2

Terratec CinergyT2/qanu USB 2.0 DVB-T

dvb-usb-cxusb

Conexant USB2.0 hybrid

dvb-usb-dib0700

DiBcom DiB0700

dvb-usb-dibusb-common

DiBcom DiB3000M-B

dvb-usb-dibusb-mc

DiBcom DiB3000M-C/P

dvb-usb-digitv

Nebula Electronics uDigiTV DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-dtt200u

WideView WT-200U and WT-220U (pen) DVB-T

dvb-usb-dtv5100

AME DTV-5100 USB2.0 DVB-T

dvb-usb-dvbsky

DVBSky USB

dvb-usb-dw2102

DvbWorld & TeVii DVB-S/S2 USB2.0

dvb-usb-ec168

E3C EC168 DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-gl861

Genesys Logic GL861 USB2.0

dvb-usb-gp8psk

GENPIX 8PSK->USB module

dvb-usb-lmedm04

LME DM04/QQBOX DVB-S USB2.0

dvb-usb-m920x

Uli m920x DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-nova-t-usb2

Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2 DVB-T USB2.0

dvb-usb-opera

Opera1 DVB-S USB2.0 receiver

dvb-usb-pctv452e

Pinnacle PCTV HDTV Pro USB device/TT Connect S2-3600

dvb-usb-rtl28xxu

Realtek RTL28xxU DVB USB

dvb-usb-technisat-usb2

Technisat DVB-S/S2 USB2.0

dvb-usb-ttusb2

Pinnacle 400e DVB-S USB2.0

dvb-usb-umt-010

HanfTek UMT-010 DVB-T USB2.0

dvb_usb_v2

Support for various USB DVB devices v2

dvb-usb-vp702x

TwinhanDTV StarBox and clones DVB-S USB2.0

dvb-usb-vp7045

TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBoxII, DNTV tinyUSB2, Beetle USB2.0

em28xx

Empia EM28xx USB devices

go7007

WIS GO7007 MPEG encoder

gspca

Drivers for several USB Cameras

hackrf

HackRF

hdpvr

Hauppauge HD PVR

msi2500

Mirics MSi2500

mxl111sf-tuner

MxL111SF DTV USB2.0

pvrusb2

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2

pwc

USB Philips Cameras

s2250

Sensoray 2250/2251

s2255drv

USB Sensoray 2255 video capture device

smsusb

Siano SMS1xxx based MDTV receiver

stkwebcam

USB Syntek DC1125 Camera

tm6000-alsa

TV Master TM5600/6000/6010 audio

tm6000-dvb

DVB Support for tm6000 based TV cards

tm6000

TV Master TM5600/6000/6010 driver

ttusb_dec

Technotrend/Hauppauge USB DEC devices

usbtv

USBTV007 video capture

uvcvideo

USB Video Class (UVC)

zd1301

ZyDAS ZD1301

zr364xx

USB ZR364XX Camera