From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 29 05:57:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCEF106564A for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:57:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4348FC14 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.95.244] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2cXV-0004xT-JX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:57:25 +0100 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q1T5vPm0002152 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:57:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id q1T5vPns002151 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:57:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:57:25 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120229055724.GA2118@tinyCurrent> References: <201202282046.q1SKkK19004913@slippy.cwsent.com> <4F4D6F3C.8020101@herveybayaustralia.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4F4D6F3C.8020101@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r214444 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 93.104.95.244 Subject: Re: Webcam Selection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:57:27 -0000 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 - 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