From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 09:13:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23D0106574F for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:13:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe02.swip.net [212.247.154.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C768FC16 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:13:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=lVe/gw8n+Sg6VfbntC6ksM24ozRLXC8p6LIuM5gXbf8= c=1 sm=1 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=M8b_wTzEtboA:10 a=MnI1ikcADjEx7bvsp0jZvQ==:17 a=59NVUfGIdAMoNfLj0wsA:9 a=lismycrDVYadMkQYgJoA:7 a=m1Cf5ApW_FiVlBMJHsAF8ROefskA:4 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=MnI1ikcADjEx7bvsp0jZvQ==:117 Received: from [188.126.201.140] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO laptop002.hselasky.homeunix.org) by mailfe02.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.19) with ESMTPA id 15540436; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:12:46 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: David Naylor Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:08:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201008292147.09750.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <201009010919.55484.hselasky@c2i.net> <201009021057.55901.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201009021057.55901.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> X-Face: +~\`s("[*|O,="7?X@L.elg*F"OA\I/3%^p8g?ab%RN'(; _IjlA: hGE..Ew, XAQ*o#\/M~SC=S1-f9{EzRfT'|Hhll5Q]ha5Bt-s|oTlKMusi:1e[wJl}kd}GR Z0adGx-x_0zGbZj'e(Y[(UNle~)8CQWXW@:DX+9)_YlB[tIccCPN$7/L' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009021108.55301.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: webcamd and Pixart Imaging X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:13:03 -0000 On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:57:52 David Naylor wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 09:19:55 Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > > Will it matter if my kernel is a bit old (about 3 months)? Are there > > > any (small) live linux distros that have good webcam support (so that > > > I can check if the cam works at all with gspca)? > > > > > > David > > > > Maybe you could check your webcam in Ubuntu? > > > > --HPS > > Just before I was about to check the webcam with Ubuntu I tried it on > another computer... and it worked. > > To make sure: I copied across the debug build of webcam and it worked with > that as well. It certainly is not the software on the webcamd side. > cuse4bsd is the same on both computers. Both systems are running > different custom kernels but contain the same usb devices (the same as > GENERIC). > > On the computer that works `pwcview -s vga` does not work. I expect that > to be a limitation of the device. > > On the other computer, I tried every USB port and none of them work. The > USB controllers are: > > ohci0@pci0:0:11:0: class=0x0c0310 card=0x50041458 chip=0x026d10de > rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > device = 'MCP51 USB Controller' > class = serial bus > subclass = USB > ehci0@pci0:0:11:1: class=0x0c0320 card=0x50041458 chip=0x026e10de > rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > device = 'MCP51 USB Controller' > class = serial bus > subclass = USB > > The USB ports do work for umass, u3g and umodem devices. Will the kernel > version have an impact, should I upgrade to head? > > The webcam works with Ubuntu on both computers. There has been some updates in the kernel in the USB area (isochronous transfers), which might affect Webcam operation. --HPS