Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint)

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 20:31:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhell at dataix.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:57:07PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:39:52PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 11 October 2011 21:31:02 Juergen Lock wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:35:49PM +0200, Michal Varga wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:21 +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
>> > > > > No.  webcamd has become kind of a misnomer, it's in fact just a
>> > > > > `wrapper' for several kinds of Linux usb kernel drivers to run them in
>> > > > > FreeBSD userland.  (We have now at least webcams, dvb tuners, IR
>> > > > > transceivers, and usb tablets. :)
>> > > >
>> > > > Oh god, thank you for mentioning this. I've been personally keeping
>> > > > webcamd out of my installations as "we don't need no stinkin webcams
>> > > > here", but this is something completely different based on what you say
>> > > > (especially the Wacom support).
>> > > >
>> > > > Was there any push to rename webcamd to something more meaningful yet?
>> > >
>> > > I'm not aware of anything like that...
>> >
>> > In my talk at EuroBSDcon I said that webcamd might be renamed in the future.
>> > Does anyone have any good suggestions?
>>
>> Hmm thats tricky...  usbd-linux?  Can't think of something really good...
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>>       Juergen
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> usbsd ?

Perhaps usbmd? (usb media daemon)
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen


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