ATTENTION WEBCAM USERS: Say cheese!

[Dominique Goncalves]

Hi,

On Jan 14, 2008 8:08 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> One of the new GNOME 2.22 modules is cheese.  Cheese is a small GNOME
> app that drives webcams to take pictures and videos using gstreamer's
> video4linux plug-in.  If you're familiar with MacOS's Photobooth, it's a
> lot like that.
>
> However, it won't work on FreeBSD as it stands now.  The reason is we
> lack webcam support in our hal port.  I do not have a webcam, so I have
> no idea how these devices look.  If anyone out there has a webcam that
> works with FreeBSD, how do you use it?  How is it identified as a webcam
> by the OS?  What device node does it use?  What applications currently
> work with it?

I use a Logitech Quickcam express, FreeBSD detects the webcam as
ugen1: <vendor 0x046d Camera, class 255/255, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2> on uhub1
I just tried graphics/qcamview [1], it works with this:

% sudo qcamshot /dev/ugen1 > output.ppm
USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27
09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04
quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08
quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64
quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19
quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10
quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected
Closing Qcam Express.....Done.

but with qcamview it crash:
USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27
09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ + BSD patch 0.04
quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 bf id: 08
quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64
quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19
quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10
quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected
Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  serial 111 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0

Let me know if you need more information.

>
> If we do not have any GNOME webcam users, then cheese will not be part
> of our GNOME 2.22 port.
>
> Joe
>
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> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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Regards.

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