[CFT] New version of webcamd, now v4.8.0.2
Hans Petter Selasky
hps at selasky.org
Mon Oct 31 22:40:07 UTC 2016
On 10/31/16 22:12, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> Excerpts from Hans Petter Selasky's message from Fri 19-Aug-16 15:01:
>>
>> If you are using webcamd, please help test the latest version which includes
>> the most recent Linux v4.8-rc1 media tree sources.
>>
>> The latest webcamd port is available from here:
>>
>> svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \
>> checkout svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b/trunk/ports/multimedia/webcamd
>>
>> Please test and report any regression issues to me or
>> freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
>>
>> Changes:
>> - updated all Linux kernel sources to the latest Linux' Torvalds
>> - fixed some minor bugs in the webcamd Linux kernel emulation
>> - improved Linux kernel emulation support
>> - added support for the coming evdev kernel module (GSOC project)
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> I've build 4.8.0.4 and found that with HAL enabled it does not create
> /dev/video0 when launched as daemon, but does create when run manually.
>
> I do not need HAL, it was enabled by default, so I recompiled it without
> HAL and it works fine.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
Hi,
If hald_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf then webcamd will be started trying
to connect to HALD. Else not. Try remove hald_enable="YES".
--HPS
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