Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:04:02 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Joe Royce <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> Cc: antoine cochet <cochet@univ-lehavre.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quickcam,vic and freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990622114638.14320v-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906221058360.5319-100000@team7.cba>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Joe Royce wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, antoine cochet wrote:
>
> > Hi,i'm trying to get something from a color quickcam, here where i am:
> > ---------------
> > ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
> > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
> > ppb0: IEEE1284 device found /ECP
> > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
> > ppbus0: <Connectix QuickCam VC> MEDIA
>
> The QuickCam VC is not supported.
Let's say it's not supported because connectix is a major pain to
get hardware info from. People got sick of reverse engineering
thier protocols.
"The company that makes Quickcam refuses to allow FreeBSD to
support it"
Not only that but you can get a WinTV card that'll do 30fps
for about 100$ which is supported under freebsd.
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net]
systems administrator and programmer
Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/
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