Acer Aspire AS5672 - built in camera - status so far

[Oliver Fromme]

Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
 > The Acer Aspire AS5672WLMi laptop have a built in camera, placed on
 > top  of the LCD panel, in the upper frame of the lid. The lens is
 > facing the person sitting in front of the laptop. The camera can be
 > swiveled around the x-axis so that it can take pictures the other way.
 > The camera is labelddc as a 1.3 megapixel camera.
 > 
 > FreeBSD sees this camera like this:
 > 
 > tingo at kg-home$ dmesg | grep -i camera
 > ugen0: OEM Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
 > tingo at kg-home$ usbdevs -v | grep -i camera
 >  port 8 addr 2: high speed, power 200 mA, config 1, Camera(0x0892), OEM(0x046d), rev 1.00
 > 
 > The vendor id is 0x046d, which is Logitech. I've tried both pwcbsd
 > and spca5xx from ports, but none of them detects the camera.

On http://raaf.atspace.org/ (homepage of multimedia/pwcbsd)
there's a list of supported vendor/product IDs, including
quite a lot of Logitech ones.  Maybe the 0x0892 one is
compatible with the others, so just adding the ID to the
source might be sufficient to get it work.  Worth a try.

There's also graphics/phpsview in the Ports which supports
several Philips / Logitech cameras.  Might be worth a try,
too.

The pwcbsd software is based on an older version of a Linux
driver available from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ .
If you're somewhat familiar with C programming, you could
try to look at the Linux driver whether it supports the
0x0892 ID, and if so, try to backport it to the BSD port.

Best regards
   Oliver

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