Lenovo G550 webcam issue

[Const]

Hello.

I've set up PC-BSD 8.1 on Lenovo G530 laptop under VirtualBox, installed Skype from PBI dir. It runs but can't detect my integrated Lenovo EasyWebcam. Executing webcamd

[const@bravo] /home/const# webcamd
Cannot find USB device

seems cannot detect camera. dmesg command

[const@bravo] /home/const# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project.
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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Sat Jul 17 11:59:09 PDT 2010
root@build8x32.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/local_storage/pcbsd-build81-x32/fbsd-source/8.1/sys/PCBSD i386
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4400 @ 2.20GHz (2103.27-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x1067a Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping = 10
Features=0x783f3bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8, APIC,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 >
Features2=0x209<SSE3,MON,SSSE3>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1031946240 (984 MB)
pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
Cuse4BSD v0.1.11 @ /dev/cuse
kbd1 at kbdmux0
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
acpi0: <VBOX VBOXXSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xd000-0xd00f at device 1.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.1> port 0xd010-0xd017 mem 0xf0000000-0xf001ffff irq 10 at device 3.0 on pci0
em0: [FILTER]
em0: Ethernet address: 08:00:27:a8:ce:1e
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xf0804000-0xf0804fff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0
ohci0: [ITHREAD]
usbus0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
pci0: <bridge> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
ehci0: <Intel 82801FB (ICH6) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xf0805000-0xf0805fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1: <Intel 82801FB (ICH6) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc8fff,0xe2000-0xe2fff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
atrtc0: <AT Real Time Clock> at port 0x70 irq 8 on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
ZFS NOTICE: Prefetch is disabled by default on i386 -- to enable,
add "vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0" to /boot/loader.conf.
ZFS WARNING: Recommended minimum kmem_size is 512MB; expect unstable behavior.
Consider tuning vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max
in /boot/loader.conf.
ZFS filesystem version 3
ZFS storage pool version 14
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2103267194 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ad0: 31283MB <VBOX HARDDISK 1.0> at ata0-master UDMA33
ugen0.1: <Apple> at usbus0
uhub0: <Apple OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen1.1: <Intel> at usbus1
uhub1: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
acd0: DVDROM <VBOX CD-ROM/1.0> at ata1-master UDMA33
uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
uhub1: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <VBOX CD-ROM 1.0> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: cd present [1738982 x 2048 byte records]
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/label/rootfs0
WARNING: TMPFS is considered to be a highly experimental feature in FreeBSD.
pcm0: <Intel ICH (82801AA)> port 0xd100-0xd1ff,0xd200-0xd23f irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci0
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9700/83/84 AC97 Codec>
pcm0: ac97 link rate calibration timed out after 1670285 us

doesn't mention anything about camera at all. Is it possible to find out why it's not detected and if it is supported at all?

Thank you.

[Const]

Probably it's a VirtualBox issue. Just found this ticket on http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/242

[thnewguy]

Quite often extra devices, like cameras and various USB add-ons, won't be detected by VirtualBox. This seems especially true of the OSE edition of VirtualBox most system come with. Depending on your host OS, you might be able to install the full version of VirtualBox to get more device support.

[Const]

I use Windows 7 as host OS. Currently trying to install PC-BSD as second system, have some problems with burning ISO to disc. I'll report about webcam later.

[Const]

I've set up PC-BSD on laptop. Now it detects webcam but Skype doesn't see it and pwcview command gives me the following

[const@alpha] /home/const# pwcview
Failed to set palette to YUV420P: Invalid argument

What can I do or where should I look to understand the problem?

ADDED: In /var/log/messages I see the following

Aug 25 00:32:03 alpha root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x090c product 0x3371 bus uhub7

Looks like it's not supported