Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:57:25 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Webcam Selection Message-ID: <20120229055724.GA2118@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <4F4D6F3C.8020101@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <201202282046.q1SKkK19004913@slippy.cwsent.com> <4F4D6F3C.8020101@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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El día Wednesday, February 29, 2012 a las 10:20:12AM +1000, Da Rock escribió: > On 02/29/12 06:46, Cy Schubert wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After a number of years just lying in desk drawer my old Logitech spherical > > webcam died. So, I'm looking for a new one. It's not that I use it a lot. > > My wife will be heading out of province to our son's place next month to be > > there for the birth of our first grandson. The plan was to use a webcam to > > send back pictures later (not on the day of, of course but a week later). > > Anyhow I need to replace the old with a new webcam. The last time I used > > the old webcam it was hooked up to a Windows XP system. I've since retired > > that machine, along with the retirement of three FreeBSD machines, leaving > > me with a few servers and my FreeBSD laptop. I'm hoping to use the webcam > > with Pidgin with MSN. Can anyone suggest a brand and model? It needs to > > have good image quality and needs to work with FreeBSD 9.0. Any suggestions? See http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat for a list of known to work webcams; HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11 | UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2 | FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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