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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:31:02 +0200
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint)
Message-ID:  <20111011193102.GB16736@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon>
References:  <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111011164716.GA4166@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111011175414.GA91188@DataIX.net> <20111011182118.GA6923@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon>

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:35:49PM +0200, Michal Varga wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:21 +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 
> > No.  webcamd has become kind of a misnomer, it's in fact just a `wrapper'
> > for several kinds of Linux usb kernel drivers to run them in FreeBSD
> > userland.  (We have now at least webcams, dvb tuners, IR transceivers,
> > and usb tablets. :)
> > 
> 
> Oh god, thank you for mentioning this. I've been personally keeping
> webcamd out of my installations as "we don't need no stinkin webcams
> here", but this is something completely different based on what you say
> (especially the Wacom support).
> 
> Was there any push to rename webcamd to something more meaningful yet?

I'm not aware of anything like that...

	Juergen



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