Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:12:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Tom W. Cutter" <twcutter@mowgli.wr.usgs.gov> To: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jim Lowe) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New news... Message-ID: <199603282212.OAA14084@mowgli.wr.usgs.gov> In-Reply-To: <199603281919.NAA22568@miller.cs.uwm.edu> from "Jim Lowe" at Mar 28, 96 01:19:27 pm
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>>>>> Jim Lowe writes: > > A Kernel level Quickcam driver written by Paul Traina can be found > > with anon ftp: ftp.shockwave.com in /pub/users/pst/qcamdriver/ > Is this what is in 2.2-current? Yes it should be the same. > There is already a qcam driver > in vic, but I couldn't find the library the that Koji OKAMURA > used. I never had any luck using his version of grabber-qcam.cc which used the -lqcam linux library. > Is there a good way one could include either driver or both using > the auto configuration that vic uses? Apparently, the qcam driver > in vic needs -lqcam (just for linux?), but the configuration stuff > requires it to be around even for FreeBSD. The -lqcam is a linux library setup to access the quickcam. There exists hacks to get it to work on FreeBSD. See url: <http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/>; I believe the kernel driver is the cleaner approach. It does not need the -lqcam library. The Linux library accesses address ports on the parallel card and this kind of access is generally handled through device drivers. The -lqcam library also requires running the program suid root to access the memory locations. > Is it possible to configure a single parallel port for both > lp and qcam and just switch cables? Don't know. I have two parallel ports. One for the printer one for the Quickcam. - Tom Cutter
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