From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 5 15:15:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18128 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:15:52 -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 PAA18123 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:15:50 -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 SAA02923; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:10:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:10:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@zone.syracuse.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM question (QCAM question) In-Reply-To: <15104.905021203@time.cdrom.com> 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 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? Cheers, Brian Feldman On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Tiny change of subject here, but this is brought up now: the QuickCam > > driver was dropped out of -CURRENT do to "lack of interest"... well why? > > I don't think anyone wanted to maintain it, and the usermode quickcam > stuff seemed to do everything that the kernel quickcam stuff did > without also crashing the system when you plugged a QuickCam VC (the > new color model) in. > > > Many other things only have niche users, but are still here (things being > > drivers). I've already gotten the qcam driver to work perfectly on a 3.0 > > system, so I could easily post all the code to remerge in. Failing that-as > > Does that include the VC? As I said before, having the system crash > because a novice user has plugged in a different model is not a recipe > for success when it comes to tech support, and if you're willing to > solve that problem as well (and no, I don't have a VC for you - I gave > that to the last guy who promised to fix this and have heard nothing > back since :) then I certainly have no objection to seeing it come > back. > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message