Integrated webcam in Cheese : "No device found"

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Wed May 20 14:44:12 UTC 2015


On 05/20/15 16:29, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:50:06PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am using FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE on DELL Inspiron 15R N5010 which has
>> an integrated webcam.
>>
>> Whenever I launch Cheese (webcam application) it says "No device
>> found". My /etc/rc.conf has a line webcamd_enable="YES" in it.
>>
>> I also tried # kldload cuse4bsd referring to FreeBSD Forums but still
>> Cheese giving same error.
>>
>> I also tried installing multimedia/v4l-utils port as hinted in
>> #freebsd but it also didn't work. Still the same error.
>>
>> So how do I make Cheese access an integrated webcam of my system?
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the output from
>
> pkg info cuse4bsd-kmod webcamd
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary

Also try:

usbconfig

as root.

Try to start webcamd manually:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/webcamd start ugenX.Y

What does it say?

--HPS





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