Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:16:47 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATTENTION WEBCAM USERS: Say cheese! Message-ID: <1202714207.32384.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <478BB33F.3000506@FreeBSD.org> <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-rVuZriI5antMS3v4MqV7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:51 +0100, Dominique Goncalves wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Jan 14, 2008 8:08 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > One of the new GNOME 2.22 modules is cheese. Cheese is a small GNOME > > app that drives webcams to take pictures and videos using gstreamer's > > video4linux plug-in. If you're familiar with MacOS's Photobooth, it's = a > > lot like that. > > > > However, it won't work on FreeBSD as it stands now. The reason is we > > lack webcam support in our hal port. I do not have a webcam, so I have > > no idea how these devices look. If anyone out there has a webcam that > > works with FreeBSD, how do you use it? How is it identified as a webca= m > > by the OS? What device node does it use? What applications currently > > work with it? >=20 > I use a Logitech Quickcam express, FreeBSD detects the webcam as > ugen1: <vendor 0x046d Camera, class 255/255, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2> on uh= ub1 > I just tried graphics/qcamview [1], it works with this: >=20 > % sudo qcamshot /dev/ugen1 > output.ppm > USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 > 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04 > quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor =3D 10 bf id: 08 > quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor =3D 00 10 id: 64 > quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor =3D 00 10 id: 19 > quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor =3D 10 10 id: 10 > quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected > Closing Qcam Express.....Done. >=20 > but with qcamview it crash: > USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 > 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04 > quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor =3D 10 bf id: 08 > quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor =3D 00 10 id: 64 > quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor =3D 00 10 id: 19 > quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor =3D 10 10 id: 10 > quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > serial 111 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0 >=20 > Let me know if you need more information. Have you tried this camera with the multimedia/pwcbsd port? This port should offer a video4linux driver for this camera. While I've added ldev support to hal, I'd like to add support for this driver as well. If you install it, can you send me the output of dmesg and lshal? Joe >=20 > > > > If we do not have any GNOME webcam users, then cheese will not be part > > of our GNOME 2.22 port. > > > > Joe > > > > - -- > > Joe Marcus Clarke > > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFHi7M/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAqbPAJ9Ly9gcR//vTqG9Y4WFjMO3L2SNNACgnzKw > > gfYSx1WrchsjMq/IMti1hfw=3D > > =3D5nsw > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > > >=20 > Regards. >=20 --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-rVuZriI5antMS3v4MqV7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkev9lsACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fWkACdHUThPrdEx52ldVPTv3WUxrfP g6UAnR1Tttsag4vB13p1PV4vzHjHiKD8 =Ywxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rVuZriI5antMS3v4MqV7--
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