Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:49:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qcam/cqcam driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910041745530.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <xzp4sg6962p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 4 Oct 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> writes: > > Just a question: has the Quickcam and ColorQuickcam (if there was any) > > been removed from the kernel? And, if yes, for what reason? > > Yeah, they were nuked ages ago. > > OTOH, I always wanted one of those babies, and ISTR that Connectix has > a free developer program where you can sign up to get tech specs and > stuff. If somebody donates the eq I might hack up a KLD module :) As far as I remeber it was under some pretty strict NDA because of the compression scheme used by the cameras. Quickcam is now owned by Logitech and there aren't even any notes about a Linux driver. If you do want something that sort of works, there's some utilities in the ports system that will talk to a quickcam bw/I/II as far as the newer models (VC/pro) i'm not so sure they are supported. How good is logitech at providing specifications for third party drivers? Anyhow, the bt848 stuff kicks butt, why would you want to waste so much CPU on a non-versitile parralell port thingy, than a bus mastering PCI capture card that sells for about the same price? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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