Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:51:11 +0100 From: "Dominique Goncalves" <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATTENTION WEBCAM USERS: Say cheese! Message-ID: <7daacbbe0801141351mb07b694oceb6da925cacc1ac@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <478BB33F.3000506@FreeBSD.org> References: <478BB33F.3000506@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, On Jan 14, 2008 8:08 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > One of the new GNOME 2.22 modules is cheese. Cheese is a small GNOME > app that drives webcams to take pictures and videos using gstreamer's > video4linux plug-in. If you're familiar with MacOS's Photobooth, it's a > lot like that. > > However, it won't work on FreeBSD as it stands now. The reason is we > lack webcam support in our hal port. I do not have a webcam, so I have > no idea how these devices look. If anyone out there has a webcam that > works with FreeBSD, how do you use it? How is it identified as a webcam > by the OS? What device node does it use? What applications currently > work with it? I use a Logitech Quickcam express, FreeBSD detects the webcam as ugen1: <vendor 0x046d Camera, class 255/255, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2> on uhub1 I just tried graphics/qcamview [1], it works with this: % sudo qcamshot /dev/ugen1 > output.ppm USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04 quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08 quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64 quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19 quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10 quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected Closing Qcam Express.....Done. but with qcamview it crash: USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04 quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08 quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64 quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19 quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10 quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 111 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0 Let me know if you need more information. > > If we do not have any GNOME webcam users, then cheese will not be part > of our GNOME 2.22 port. > > Joe > > - -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHi7M/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAqbPAJ9Ly9gcR//vTqG9Y4WFjMO3L2SNNACgnzKw > gfYSx1WrchsjMq/IMti1hfw= > =5nsw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Regards. -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."
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