From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 17:12:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504A116A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936D443D69 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:12:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from arwen.nagual.st (arwen.nagual.st [192.168.11.29]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:12:31 +0100 id 0003982D.43CBD3FF.0000615C Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:12:31 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20060116181231.8e298e39.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20060115092021.GA14248@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20060115092021.GA14248@lothlorien.nagual.st> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0beta4 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: webcam usb device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:12:37 -0000 On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:20:21 +0100 dick hoogendijk wrote: > I have a Logiteck QuickCam Chat webcam (USB-2) > The device is detected alright. But I cannot get it to work. > Kopete (KDE) i.e. does not see the device. > > I have two questions: > (a) do I need to load some kind of *.ko file (like for the soundcards) > to use a webcam under freebsd-6R? > (b) what program is useful in testing this (web) usb-camera? > Hope to get some advice. Nobody reacted. So either I'm stupid and just should know how these things work in FreeBSD, or people didn't have time yet to respond. I googled a lot on "webcam and freebsd" but could not find something relevant. I did read somewhre that on linux one has to create a /dev/video* which on my fbsd-6R does not exist. I trust devfs should have made one if needed.. I still at a loss on how to use my webcam on freebsd. It shouldn't be too hard I'm told. Well, whatever.. It is in dmesg, but further than that it can not be used. Who has some pointers? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 ++ The Power to Serve