From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 29 08:08:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA27976 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27966 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA08180; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:06:32 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199512291606.KAA08180@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Is anyone working on a QuickCam driver/app? To: frank@exit.com (Frank Mayhar) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:06:32 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512282317.PAA01165@exit.com> from "Frank Mayhar" at Dec 28, 95 03:17:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > If so, let me know; I don't have a _whole_ lot of spare time, but I do have > the hardware, and can certainly test things, or even write bits as I have > moments. > > If I receive no replies, I'll probably go ahead and (attempt to) get the > specs in order to write at least the driver myself, and maybe a hacked- > together app to use it. I assume that there are pointers regarding use > of the bidirectional parallel port already in the code (I know about the > lpt driver, and there's also the parallel-port network driver, I believe). Is that one of those little ping-pong-ball-that-connect-to-the-parallel-port cameras? They're dirt cheap and it would really be great to have support for something like this! (I found myself wondering if they had a Mac/etc version that didn't use the parallel port) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847