From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 8: 7:30 2003 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 0A9E137B405 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7DF43F75 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:07:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org ([62.31.102.216]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:07:22 +0000 Message-ID: <3E564EBB.4050004@cream.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:07:23 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jacob rhoden Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modern (usb) webcam support? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jacob rhoden wrote: >My searches for information on webcam have not found much, except for some >sites which say FreeBSD does not support USB web cameras. > >Is anyone currently working on support for this? Does anyone have any >ideas about where one could go to get information about where to start >if one was to start writing a driver? > The graphics/vid port supports USB webcams based on the Omnivision OV511 and OV511+ chipsets. This apparently includes : Creative Labs WebCam 3 (*** see note about the OV511+ below ***) D-Link DSB-C300 Puretek PT-6007 Alpha Vision Koala-Cam Lifeview RoboCam AverMedia InterCam Elite MediaForte MV300 Trust SpaceCam 300 (*** see note about the OV511+ below ***) Apparently support for the OV511+ chipset is still patchy with slightly unpredictable results. I managed to pick up a puretek PT-6007 on eBay for almost nothing, and it works perfectly! I don't know if you would refer to these cams as 'modern' however.... Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message