Webcam support in FreeBSD?

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Sun Mar 29 12:09:46 PDT 2009


There are three Linux drivers supported under emulation code:
devel/linux-kmod-compat 
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/>, 
multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod 
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod/>, 
multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod 
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod/>.

I couldn't find hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD.
There is one for Linux ov511 driver here: 
http://ovcam.org/ov511/cameras.html.

Are any cameras really working under FreeBSD?
Can they be used from Linux Skype on FreeBSD?

Thanks,
Yuri


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