From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 6 08:47:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA27225 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 08:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zone.syracuse.net (zone.syracuse.net [205.232.47.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA27220 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 08:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by zone.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA03484; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 11:43:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 11:43:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@zone.syracuse.net To: Studded cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM question (QCAM question) In-Reply-To: <35F1C5B2.ED7D650F@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, if I could find a complete, working, entirely userland QuickCam B&W software, that would be great, but as of this time, I've found no good ones. -Brian On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Studded wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > Well, hell, maybe I need to start a complete reimplimentation of the > > QuickCam driver!! In the short term, though, I can work on a few things: > > * VC support (at least to make it not crash!) > > - I have access to a QuickCam VC, so I can certainly test > > it out; I will attempt to look for more information regarding the > > protocol, but if I run into any NDA's, I'm not gonna be able to contribute > > any code I make :( > > * ppbus support... sure, don't see that being way too hard > > Any caveats for me before I start with the VC stuff? > > While you're working on it, why not plan to make a port out of it > instead of planning to put it back in the base? Is there any reason > that it would need to be in the base, especially given that there is a > userland version that (TMK) runs just fine? These aren't rhetorical > questions btw. If there is a good reason I'd love to hear it, otherwise > my vote is that it should be a port. > > Doug > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > > At Barry (a small town in south Wales) hidden cameras have had to be > installed to keep watch on the town's CCTV [Closed Circuit Television] > to record acts of vandalism against the CCTV. - Privacy Forum > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message