Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:49:48 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: FYI: v4l-linuxulator support in FreeBSD-current now Message-ID: <201001121849.48833.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20100112124621.59fa3747@shibato.opal.com> References: <20091204223126.00005392@unknown> <201001120923.38871.hselasky@c2i.net> <20100112124621.59fa3747@shibato.opal.com>
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On Tuesday 12 January 2010 18:46:21 J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:23:38 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote: > > > Thanks for your work! Having this support now in FreeBSD for my > > > multimedia/pwcbsd based cam in Skype, I'd like to have the same for the > > > cam in my EeePC 900, about which Linux says: > > > > > > [ 11.540000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > > > [ 11.560000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7129 > > > (04f2:b071) [ 11.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver > > > uvcvideo [ 11.690000] USB Video Class driver (SVN r2008.02.27) > > > > Hi, > > > > > Any chance to get this supported in the future? > > > > Right now that driver is available from the webcamd package announced > > earlier this week, though not BSD licensed. > > > > I tried to install Skype on AMD64 and the V4L IOCTL's are not picked up > > by the linux_ioctl.c ! > > > > Any fix for this? > > > > --HPS > > Hans, > > The Linux V4L support is only a system call translation layer > to allow Linux V4L apps to access FreeBSD V4L drivers. In other > words, the FreeBSD driver must offer a VL4 support itself. > > I looked for webcamd on freshports.org but nothing comes up. > I am not familiar with the drivers in it. Do they include V4L > support? Hi, I put some more info on webcamd here: http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/video4bsd/ Yes, it provides a /dev/video0 that responds to V4L IOCTLs. The only thing I noticed is that the wrong IOCTL's are coming in, and that they are not being translated by the linux_ioctl.c, probably because the wrong syscall is being used? --HPS
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