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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:07:47 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
To:        Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Multimedia <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hardware <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: USB cameras compatible with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031105030.9381-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004021734240.14237-100000@borg-cube.com>

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No, and it will take quite some time before they will be supported.

Personally I have no interest in writing the support for them, but I'd
welcome and support anyone having a go at it. With the patch to OHCI
going in sometime this week, basic support for isochronous transfers
will be available for both UHCI and OHCI controllers.

Nick


> I'd like to get a webcam set up on my FreeBSD webserver.  Unfortunately,
> while shopping around I discovered that most of the current crop of
> cameras are USB based.  I know the USB support has improved a lot in
> FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, but I'm still not sure if any USB cameras are
> supported.
> 
> Does anyone know if a USB camera can be gotten to work in 4.0-RELEASE?  If
> so, what manufacturer/model should I buy?
> 
> Unfortunately this machine has very little else in terms of free 
> resources (both parallel ports and PCI slots are pretty much
> maxed out), otherwise I'd go buy a Color QuickCam or something.
> 
> Thanks!
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