From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 8 9:43:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C4B37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.baerum.kommune.no (mail.baerum.kommune.no [195.134.40.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A06043E70 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no) Received: from mail.baerum.kommune.no (unverified) by mail.baerum.kommune.no (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with SMTP id for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:44:39 +0200 Received: from SA-D01-Message_Server by mail.baerum.kommune.no with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 18:43:13 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.5 Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 18:43:10 +0200 From: "Idar Tollefsen" To: Subject: USB webcam Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message