Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:21:18 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint) Message-ID: <20111011182118.GA6923@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20111011175414.GA91188@DataIX.net> References: <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111011164716.GA4166@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111011175414.GA91188@DataIX.net>
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:54:14PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:47:16PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:23:41PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > My dad likes to paint a bit so I got him a Wacom tablet as a present > > > (Bamboo Pen & Touch), and I thought I could help getting it working > > > on FreeBSD while I was at it... [...] > > > > I guess I should have said getting it working on 8.x and later, I > > suppose the input-wacom port currently in ports still can be made > > to work with the old usb stack in 7.x. > > > > I might be missing something but does this tablet have a webcam built > into it ? this is me not understanding the use of webcamd. 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. :) HTH, Juergen
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