Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more)

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo schreef:
> > I think I reached a first interesting milestone in my project
> > to build an emulation layer to compile linux device drivers on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I managed to build a FreeBSD port of the linux 'gspca' driver (which claims
> > to support 228 different webcams) with basically no modifications to
> > the original source. So it would be good if someone could give a try
> > to this code, either on -current or -stable, keeping in mind that
> > this is NOT PRODUCTION READY yet.
> > 
> [...]
> > together of course with source code, and even binary modules
> > for FreeBSD 6.2.
> > Basically I would like to know how it builds/works on -current,
> > have reports on cameras that work with it and those which don't
> > and so on.
> [...]
> 
> The binary modules also load on CURRENT i386 as of 2007/01/30,
> dmesg shows
> 
> > usb_spca5xx_init: gspca driver 01.00.12 registered
> 
> but it doesn't recognize the Xbox360 webcam (vendor 0x45e, product 0x294) :
> 
> > spcaDetectCamera called vend 0x45e prod 0x294 p 0xc7a8d334
> > spcaCameraDetect failed
> 
> neither does it recognize the builtin USB 2.0 webcam of my Asus A6JE
> laptop (Syntek, product 0xa311), at least no /dev/video* show up.

ok thanks for the work anyways... i see there is a
project on sourceforge for this one but probably not complete yet

http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/index.php?mode=documentation

while i haven't found anything on the web for the xbox thing.

	cheers
	luigi