From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 29 00:25:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF9C10656B5 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482C08FC14 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C2D5C28 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:38:39 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBD545C22 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:38:38 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F4D6F3C.8020101@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:20:12 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201202282046.q1SKkK19004913@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <201202282046.q1SKkK19004913@slippy.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Webcam Selection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:11 -0000 On 02/29/12 06:46, Cy Schubert wrote: > Hi all, > > After a number of years just lying in desk drawer my old Logitech spherical > webcam died. So, I'm looking for a new one. It's not that I use it a lot. > My wife will be heading out of province to our son's place next month to be > there for the birth of our first grandson. The plan was to use a webcam to > send back pictures later (not on the day of, of course but a week later). > Anyhow I need to replace the old with a new webcam. The last time I used > the old webcam it was hooked up to a Windows XP system. I've since retired > that machine, along with the retirement of three FreeBSD machines, leaving > me with a few servers and my FreeBSD laptop. I'm hoping to use the webcam > with Pidgin with MSN. Can anyone suggest a brand and model? It needs to > have good image quality and needs to work with FreeBSD 9.0. Any suggestions? Thanks to the hard work of Luigi Rizzo and Co, just about any CE device should work. If it works on linux it will work here now, using webcamd.