Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:53:21 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Subject: Re: skype webcam no device found Message-ID: <20100401105321.GA8766@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <o2wa14066a01004010342nf26fe66z6ba1399629797dec@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BB3CBA8.10804@onetel.com> <o2wa14066a01004010342nf26fe66z6ba1399629797dec@mail.gmail.com>
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El día Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass escribió: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But > > skype tells me 'no device found' for video. > > > > How did you get Skype to run? The current port (in FBSD 8) is pointing > to a file no longer provided by Skype and the linux compat stuff was a > bit confusing when I tried to do it by hand. > > > I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, > > also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. > > > > Any suggestions very gratefully received. Skype from the ports runs fine in: $ uname -a FreeBSD current.Sisis.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Sun Jan 10 09:55:14 CET 2010 guru@current.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ pkg_info | fgrep skype skype-2.0.0.72,1 P2P VoIP software $ including a webCam based on pwc(4) kernel mod; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the imperialistic Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con el imperialismo de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre!
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