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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:35:49 +0200
From:      Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint)
Message-ID:  <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon>
In-Reply-To: <20111011182118.GA6923@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111011164716.GA4166@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111011175414.GA91188@DataIX.net> <20111011182118.GA6923@triton8.kn-bremen.de>

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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?

m.


-- 
Michal Varga,
Stonehenge (Gmail account)





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