From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 19:54:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA08618 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 19:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from andante.cis.temple.edu (andante.cis.temple.edu [155.247.182.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08596 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 19:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lafollet@localhost) by andante.cis.temple.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA08824 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:48:20 -0500 From: Paul LaFollette Message-Id: <199601310348.WAA08824@andante.cis.temple.edu> Subject: Any interest in Quickcam Driver To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:48:19 +0000 (WET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I managed to fall off of the hackers list a while back, so I don't know how much activity there already may be in the Connectix Quickcam, but I finally have a driver working which I would be more than happy to share if there is interest and no one else has already done a better job. I have received no information from the company, signed no non-disclosure documents, and have based this entirely on information I have gleaned from the net and my own experimentation. It works tolerably well, appears to be stable, and supports all of the features of the camera that I know of except the bidirectional port (which I am currently working on.) I am getting frame reates of around 20/sec in 80 x 60 mode and about 3 or 4/sec in 320 x 240. If you are intersted, I would be happy to tar it up along with a demo program and a little documentation and stick it in /pub/incoming somewhere (only please tell me where.) Wanted to check first though that someone hasn't already done it and that y'all aren't concerned about the fact that the Quickcam folks don't seem to be enthusiastic about details of their product being known. (All the more reason to make them known as far as I am concerned, but that is just me.) I rather hope you are interested. A couple years ago you traded me a major device number in return for the ctx driver. It's a nice integer and I use it often, but it is starting to get a little shabby and I was hoping to maybe pick up a second one. :) Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. Assoc. Professor CIS Dept. Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA lafollet@andante.cis.temple.edu