Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:14:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Acer Aspire AS5672 - built in camera - status so far Message-ID: <200607210814.k6L8E4Lj025055@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20060721013630.ed9e2b65.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > The Acer Aspire AS5672WLMi laptop have a built in camera, placed on > top of the LCD panel, in the upper frame of the lid. The lens is > facing the person sitting in front of the laptop. The camera can be > swiveled around the x-axis so that it can take pictures the other way. > The camera is labelddc as a 1.3 megapixel camera. > > FreeBSD sees this camera like this: > > tingo@kg-home$ dmesg | grep -i camera > ugen0: OEM Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 > tingo@kg-home$ usbdevs -v | grep -i camera > port 8 addr 2: high speed, power 200 mA, config 1, Camera(0x0892), OEM(0x046d), rev 1.00 > > The vendor id is 0x046d, which is Logitech. I've tried both pwcbsd > and spca5xx from ports, but none of them detects the camera. On http://raaf.atspace.org/ (homepage of multimedia/pwcbsd) there's a list of supported vendor/product IDs, including quite a lot of Logitech ones. Maybe the 0x0892 one is compatible with the others, so just adding the ID to the source might be sufficient to get it work. Worth a try. There's also graphics/phpsview in the Ports which supports several Philips / Logitech cameras. Might be worth a try, too. The pwcbsd software is based on an older version of a Linux driver available from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ . If you're somewhat familiar with C programming, you could try to look at the Linux driver whether it supports the 0x0892 ID, and if so, try to backport it to the BSD port. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200607210814.k6L8E4Lj025055>