Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)
Xn Nooby wrote: I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining). Some of the things that do work are my soundcard, nVidia card, gigabit NIC, opengl games, wine, accelerated qemu, hp inkjet printer, and lots of wonderful free software. Qemu nullified my need for VMWare (though I own 5.5 for win and linux). OpenOffice, Abiword, and Firefox with flash and java works. Lots of stuff works. I'm just curious if I am going to hit any roadblocks down the road. (Maybe there is a way to get my Quickcam to work using the RH 8.0compatibilty layer) thank! Someone ported the Linux pwc webcam driver to FreeBSD, and it actually works great with my Logitech Quickcam 4000 pro! According to his website http://raaf.atspace.org/ Logitech Quickcam Orbit should work as well. ___ In the English and Scottish football leagues, which team has the longest name? postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=223 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)
As a general rule, (although there are many exceptions) there's less support for peripherals that depend on the processor to do their jobs. The famous example are the winmodems, but many printers are starting to get that way also. While a lot of help has come from Ghostscript, your going to have a tough time getting a Canon-anything inkjet printer to print a color image under FreeBSD. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Xn Nooby Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams) I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining). Some of the things that do work are my soundcard, nVidia card, gigabit NIC, opengl games, wine, accelerated qemu, hp inkjet printer, and lots of wonderful free software. Qemu nullified my need for VMWare (though I own 5.5 for win and linux). OpenOffice, Abiword, and Firefox with flash and java works. Lots of stuff works. I'm just curious if I am going to hit any roadblocks down the road. (Maybe there is a way to get my Quickcam to work using the RH 8.0compatibilty layer) thank! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.10/262 - Release Date: 2/16/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)
I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining). Some of the things that do work are my soundcard, nVidia card, gigabit NIC, opengl games, wine, accelerated qemu, hp inkjet printer, and lots of wonderful free software. Qemu nullified my need for VMWare (though I own 5.5 for win and linux). OpenOffice, Abiword, and Firefox with flash and java works. Lots of stuff works. I'm just curious if I am going to hit any roadblocks down the road. (Maybe there is a way to get my Quickcam to work using the RH 8.0compatibilty layer) thank! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:33:15PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining). Some of the things that do work are my soundcard, nVidia card, gigabit NIC, opengl games, wine, accelerated qemu, hp inkjet printer, and lots of wonderful free software. Qemu nullified my need for VMWare (though I own 5.5 for win and linux). OpenOffice, Abiword, and Firefox with flash and java works. Lots of stuff works. I'm just curious if I am going to hit any roadblocks down the road. My printer works, but the scanner portion requires a reboot to windows or I have plug it into my powerbook. It's an HP PSC something or other. Midi - well... most open source operating systems aren't great in that area My nvidia card works except that gtk2 applications get this very strange text decay pretty often. It's very strange that the text gets very blurry and distorted sometimes. Only happens with the nvidia driver and composite render accel. I posted to the nvidia freebsd forum about it, one other person verified the issue... doesn't look like it's going to get fixed any time soon. (note - never had that problem with linux) My quickcam pro doesn't work, but I never expected it to really. My ipod video is recognized but I can't access the device. I hear this may be fixed now, I have to cvsup my tree and see if it works now. I have a couple of logitech dual action joypad things, they kinda work, but they don't fully work. Luckily I have 2 other operating systems to choose from if I really need to use one of the non-working things I mentioned above ;) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
