From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 24 23:55:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06174 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06169 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:55:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA28096; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:55:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199901250755.IAA28096@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: USB drivers In-Reply-To: <199901250145.RAA26421@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Jan 24, 1999 5:45:14 pm" To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:55:05 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article <199901241256.NAA25980.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@freebsd.dk> you write: > >Do you have any pointers for cheap cameras ?? I just bought a USB > >color cam for US$60... > > I had hoped to get a camera through Jordan and the FreeBSD project (there is > apparantly a connectix quikcam, colour and B&W, floating around, but I've > given up on them coming my way). If there is support for USB color cam's, I'd > dearly love to know about it... Me too!! Actually I bought the USB cam to try to write a driver for it, for my purpose ~5frames/sec would be more than sufficient, and that should be feasible with an USB cam using noncompressed frames. The tricky part is to find out how to talk the camera into doing it :) I'll have to finsih the USB keyboard thing first though.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message