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Date:      Thu, 08 Aug 2002 18:43:10 +0200
From:      "Idar Tollefsen" <Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no>
To:        <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   USB webcam
Message-ID:  <sd52bbc1.061@mail.baerum.kommune.no>

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Hello,

Since I currently don't have a Windows PC at home,
I thought I'll try to get my Logitech QuickCam Web
to work on FreeBSD.

Although just mentioning "USB" and "webcam" in the same
sentence as "FreeBSD" is enough to know that you're
heading for stormy waters, I've gotten further than
first expected.

The USB controller is working and dmesg yields an
identification of the camera attached to /dev/ugen0
(by identification, I mean it at least displays the=20
string "Logitech Camera"). Having installed SANE,=20
"sane-find-scanner /dev/[ugen0,usb,uscanner0]"
says it finds an unknown USB scanner.

The problem is where to go from here. The way I see
it, there are two possibilities:

1. Find some webcam software that knows how to use ugen.
2. ugen, being a general USB device driver, is too
   general for any practical use of the webcam.=20
   A specialised (non-existing?) driver for the
   QuickCam Web is needed.

Possibility nr. 1 would lead to immediate success.
Nr. 2 would most likely mean I abandon the project and
wait for my new PC to arrive and I'll install the camera
on Windows.

As far as software goes, I've been looking at
GnomeMeeting, which is the one I would really like to use,
and xcam that came with SANE just for testing. Neither
with any good results. GnomeMeeting only lists bktr[0,1]
and meteor[0,1] as valid video devices. xcam doesn't list
any and won't open ugen0.

Any thoughts or suggestions?



- IT


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