Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:09:06 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint) Message-ID: <CAJ_iqtafiDMzMycgygK7uMdKBPzeVH7o91o62JKuPfX0cVH90A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111012033719.GA52137@DataIX.net> References: <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon> <20111011193102.GB16736@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201110112139.52351.hselasky@c2i.net> <20111011195707.GA18490@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20111012033719.GA52137@DataIX.net>
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhell@dataix.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:57:07PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:39:52PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> > On Tuesday 11 October 2011 21:31:02 Juergen Lock wrote: >> > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:35:49PM +0200, Michal Varga wrote: >> > > > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:21 +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: >> > > > > No. webcamd has become kind of a misnomer, it's in fact just a >> > > > > `wrapper' for several kinds of Linux usb kernel drivers to run them in >> > > > > FreeBSD userland. (We have now at least webcams, dvb tuners, IR >> > > > > transceivers, and usb tablets. :) >> > > > >> > > > Oh god, thank you for mentioning this. I've been personally keeping >> > > > webcamd out of my installations as "we don't need no stinkin webcams >> > > > here", but this is something completely different based on what you say >> > > > (especially the Wacom support). >> > > > >> > > > Was there any push to rename webcamd to something more meaningful yet? >> > > >> > > I'm not aware of anything like that... >> > >> > In my talk at EuroBSDcon I said that webcamd might be renamed in the future. >> > Does anyone have any good suggestions? >> >> Hmm thats tricky... usbd-linux? Can't think of something really good... >> >> Juergen > > usbsd ? Perhaps usbmd? (usb media daemon) -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsenhome | help
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