From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 22:08:22 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 C2D0B16A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsduser@postmaster.co.uk) Received: from smtp5.uk1.bibliotech.net (smtp5.uk1.bibliotech.net [212.57.34.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4225643D45 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsduser@postmaster.co.uk) Received: from pmweb9.uk1.bibliotech.net ([212.57.34.112]) by smtp5.uk1.bibliotech.net with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 1FC29i-0006mt-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:18 +0000 Received: from pmweb by pmweb9.uk1.bibliotech.net with local (Exim 4.04) id 1FC29i-0008Lc-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404) From: Jan Holland To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:18 +0000 X-Postmaster: Sent from Postmaster http://www.postmaster.co.uk/, the world's premier web based email service, based in London, England. X-Postmaster-Trace: Account name: bsduser; Domain name: postmaster.co.uk; Local time: Wed Feb 22 22:08:18 2006; Local host: pmweb9.uk1.bibliotech.ne t; Remote host: 194.109.217.74; Referer site: (not defined) X-Complaints-To: General account for reporting spam and other abuse of the service , IT coordinator at responsible organisation X-Postmaster-Team-Photo: http://www.postmaster.co.uk/static/en/nav/credits .html Message-Id: Subject: Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bsduser@postmaster.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:22 -0000 Xn Nooby wrote: > I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or > Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using > webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also > were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining). > > Some of the things that do work are my soundcard, nVidia card, gigabit NIC, > opengl games, wine, accelerated qemu, hp inkjet printer, and lots of > wonderful free software. Qemu nullified my need for VMWare (though I own > 5.5 for win and linux). OpenOffice, Abiword, and Firefox with flash and java > works. Lots of stuff works. > > I'm just curious if I am going to hit any roadblocks down the road. > > (Maybe there is a way to get my Quickcam to work using the RH > 8.0compatibilty layer) > > thank! Someone ported the Linux pwc webcam driver to FreeBSD, and it actually works great with my Logitech Quickcam 4000 pro! According to his website http://raaf.atspace.org/ Logitech Quickcam Orbit should work as well. _______________________________________________________________ In the English and Scottish football leagues, which team has the longest name? postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=223