Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:22:27 +0100
From:      Jean-Mark <jeanmark@dupx.freeserve.co.uk>
To:        Bishop <bishop@teamgalocia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: USB webcams....little help?
Message-ID:  <3D4041E3.B0A842E1@dupx.freeserve.co.uk>
References:  <3D4035F6.78D28021@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> <000701c23404$077c85f0$1885b9a3@nam.slb.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello  David,

Bishop wrote:
> 
> Thanks! I finally found that it was already in the ports tree. I didn't know
> that it was there under /graphics/vid. Anyway, still no luck, because it
> found that I have to install netpbm which had problems:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ===>  Extracting for netpbm-9.23
> ===>   netpbm-9.23 depends on shared library: tiff.4 - found
> ===>   netpbm-9.23 depends on shared library: jpeg.9 - found
> ===>   netpbm-9.23 depends on shared library: png.5 - found
> /usr/bin/tar: archive - EOF not on block boundary
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/netpbm.
> *** Error code 1
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> This is after I ran the make for netpbm manually and got a checksum mismatch
> error. It asked if the Makefile and distinfo files were up to date...how do
> I check? I then tried to run it disabling the checksum, and got what you see
> above.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this? I would certainly appreciate it!
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Mark" <jeanmark@dupx.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <bishop@teamgalocia.net>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: USB webcams....little help?
> 
> > Hello David,
> >
> > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > >
> > > ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C233C0.B9CCF670
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > >
> > > MessageMichael,
> > > Thanks for the reply. However, I was not able to find the file for the =
> > > OV511/OV511+ project. The link is to an old @home site and has not been
> =
> > > updated.
> > >
> > > The other site you mentioned =
> > > (http://skippy.dyndns.org/story.php?sid=3D79) apparently deals with the
> =
> > > logitech hardware which I do not have. Perhaps someone has had some luck
> =
> > > with either the I/O Magic unit or the D-Link DSB-C100?=20
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >   ----- Original Message -----=20
> > >   From: Michael Wells=20
> > >   To: Bishop=20
> > >   Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20
> > >   Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:40 AM
> > >   Subject: Re: USB webcams....little help?
> > >
> > >
> > >   Hi,
> > >   These both looked promising.  I have not used either
> > >   but for what it's worth:
> > >
> > >   http://ovtvid-bsd.sourceforge.net/
> > >   http://skippy.dyndns.org/story.php?sid=3D79
> > >
> > >     ----- Original Message -----=20
> > >     From: Bishop=20
> > >     To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20
> > >     Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:26 AM
> > >     Subject: USB webcams....little help?
> > >
> > >
> > >     Greetings,
> > >     Has anyone had any luck with USB webcams (other than quickcams)? I =
> > > have an I/O Magic Magicvision USB and a D-Link webcam and haven't had =
> > > any luck with either of them.=20
> > >
> > >     I'm running 4.5-RELEASE on my box and the hardware appears in dmesg,
> =
> > > so I know my USB ports are recognized. I just can't find a driver for =
> > > either of them. I was just wondering if anyone has been able to get =
> > > either of these working with FreeBSD.=20
> > >
> > >     Thanks,
> > >     David Jarrell
> > >     bishop@teamgalocia.net
> > >     775579 - ICQ
> > >     JarrellD - AIM
> >
> >
> > There's a copy of the file  at:
> >
> >
> http://212.219.56.131/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/vid-1.0.1.
> tar.gz
> >
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
> >
> >

If you have  a checksum error it means  a file(s)  in one of those 
libraries  got corrupted - assuming you downloaded you need to get a
fresh copy.

Jean-Mark
jeanm_@_dupx.freeserve.co.uk

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3D4041E3.B0A842E1>