PC-BSD webcam support

[antik]

All users who want to use their webcams I post following information.

Port description for graphics/spcaview
USB Cameras based SPCA5xx Utilities for NetBSD
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1. What is it?
They are patches from SPCA5xx chipset linux driver to be worked on *BSD,
There is included two userland programs as follow;
spca5shot ... simple image capture program.
spca5view ... sequential image viewer program.

2. Supported USB cameras

Code:

Vendor Device Product Name ------ ------ ------------ 0x041e 0x4036 Creative WebCam Live! 0x041e 0x403a Creative webcam nx pro 0x046d 0x0928 Logitech QuickCam Express II 0x046d 0x092c Logitech QuickCam chat 0x0572 0x0041 Creative webcam notebook PD1170 0x060b 0xa001 Maxell CompactPC Camera PM3 0x0733 0x0401 Intel CS330 0x0923 0x010f Che-ez! Webbie(NHJ) 0x0923 0x010f SNAKE EYE SI-8480/8481 0x0923 0x010f PC CAM CP03(global sources) 0x0923 0x010f WEB Camera PBC0006(persol) 0x093a 0x2468 Generic webcam based PAC207 0x0ac8 0x301b LOAS MCM-H06SL 0x0ac8 0x301b Sandberg Nightvision 0x0c45 0x6005 Generic webcam based SN9C101 0x0c45 0x6025 LOAS MCM-S02SL 0x0c45 0x6029 Raccoon AM-ST3 0x0c45 0x602e Genius Messenger 0xabcd 0xcdee SIGMA-APO Petcam

WWW: http://www.medias.ne.jp/~takam/bsd/NetBSD.html#spca561

My Logitech Communicate STX not in original port description but it just works with spca5view command.

Port description for multimedia/pwcbsd
This port provides a FreeBSD kernel module that
video4linux enabled and raw yuv420p applications
can use to access several USB based webcams.

WWW: http://raaf.atspace.org/

Code:

Webcam Vendor Id Product Id Philips PCA645VC 0x0471 0x0302 Philips PCA646VC 0x0471 0x0303 Philips PCVC675K (Vesta) 0x0471 0x0307 Philips PCVC680K (Vesta Pro) 0x0471 0x0308 Philips PCVC690K (Vesta Pro Scan) 0x0471 0x030C Philips PCVC730K (ToUCam Fun) 0x0471 0x0310 Philips PCVC740K (ToUCam Pro) 0x0471 0x0311 Philips PCVC830K (ToUCam Fun II) 0x0471 0x0310 Philips PCVC840K (ToUCam Pro II) 0x0471 0x0311 Philips PCVC750K (ToUCam Pro Scan) 0x0471 0x0312 Philips PCVC720K/40 (ToUCam XS) 0x0471 0x0313 Philips SPC900NC (ToUCam Pro III) 0x0471 0x0329 Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 0x046D 0x08B0 Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro (Old version) 0x046D 0x08B1 Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 0x046D 0x08B2 Logitech QuickCam Zoom 0x046D 0x08B3 Logitech QuickCam Zoom (new model) 0x046D 0x08B4 Logitech QuickCam Orbit/Sphere (Old version) 0x046D 0x08B5 Logitech QuickCam (reserved id) 0x046D 0x08B6 Logitech QuickCam (reserved id) 0x046D 0x08B7 Logitech QuickCam (reserved id) 0x046D 0x08B8 Creative Labs Webcam 5 (Old version) 0x041E 0x400C Creative Labs Webcam Pro Ex 0x041E 0x4011 Samsung MPC-C10 0x055D 0x9000 Samsung MPC-C30 0x055D 0x9001 Samsung SNC-35E 0x055D 0x9002 Visionite VCS-UM100 0x0D81 0x1900 Visionite VCS-UC300 0x0D81 0x1910 Askey VC010 type 1 0x069A 0x0001 Askey VC010 type 2 0x0471 0x0304 AME Co. Afina Eye 0x06BE 0x8116 Sotec Afina Eye 0x04CC 0x8116

[Thulemanden]

PCBSD# tar -zxvf spca5xx*
tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format


PCBSD# gunzip spc* | patch -p0
Hmm... I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere.

[antik]

PCBSD# tar -zxvf spca5xx*
tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format


PCBSD# gunzip spc* | patch -p0
Hmm... I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere.

# csup /root/ports-supfile
# pkg_add -r portupgrade
# rehash
# portinstall multimedia/pwcbsd

add lines to /etc/rc.conf:

# Logitech webcam
pwc_load="YES"

# reboot

done

[Thulemanden]

PCBSD# csup /root/ports-supfile
csup: Command not found.
PCBSD#

[dracheflieger]

Quote:

PCBSD# csup /root/ports-supfile csup: Command not found. PCBSD#

Try cvsup instead

[Thulemanden]

Originally Posted by Thulemanden

Quote: PCBSD# csup /root/ports-supfile csup: Command not found. PCBSD#

Try cvsup instead

Thanks - gave a better result:

CBSD# portinstall multimedia/pwcbsd
[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 166 packages found (-20 +7) (...)....... done]
[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 15063 port entries found .........1000.........2000.........3000.........40 00.........5000.........6000.........7000......... 8000.........9000.........10000.........11000..... ....12000.........13000.........14000.........1500 0 ..... done]
** Port marked as IGNORE: multimedia/pwcbsd:
requires kernel source files

[antik]

Originally Posted by dracheflieger

Originally Posted by Thulemanden Quote: PCBSD# csup /root/ports-supfile csup: Command not found. PCBSD# Try cvsup instead

Thanks - gave a better result:

CBSD# portinstall multimedia/pwcbsd
[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 166 packages found (-20 +7) (...)....... done]
[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 15063 port entries found .........1000.........2000.........3000.........40 00.........5000.........6000.........7000......... 8000.........9000.........10000.........11000..... ....12000.........13000.........14000.........1500 0 ..... done]
** Port marked as IGNORE: multimedia/pwcbsd:
requires kernel source files

Yes you need system source as well.

# portinstall csup
# rehash
# csup /root/standard-supfile
# "repeat your port installation"