Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more)

[Kevin Downey]

On 1/30/07, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> More details on how the thing works are at
>
>         http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html
>
> 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 driver supports the Video4Linux API so it should
> be useful for a variety of applications.

very cool. But how do you know if it works? what applications can be
used with this and how do you set them to use this? I have a Quickcam
Chat which apears to be supported by the linux gscpa driver(sorry I am
away from it right now or I would post a dmesg). How would I access
the cameras video feed?
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