uvcvideo on Freebsd (uvideo status check)

[Richard Kolkovich]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:38:01PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 19:11:05 Ed Morgan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone had any joy getting webcams that use the uvcvideo driver working
> > under FreeBSD? I'm looking at putting FreeBSD back on my laptop, and if the
> > webcam will work, that'll clinch it for me. Most of the results i've found
> > from trawling Google suggest that uvcvideo is basically not going to work,
> > but if anyone knows otherwise?
> >
> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > Ed
> 
> There are several projects around, not finished yet, that are about porting 
> V4L to BSD.
> 
> See thread "USB webcam++ support for FreeBSD-8-current is soon here".
> 

Thanks - I never came across that thread (or thought about checking -emulation).

> --HPS

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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org
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