UVC Webcams
I have used a number of operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, and am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered partial support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there should be a native port of Ekiga. Robert Tim Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/
Re: UVC Webcams
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:03:26AM -0700, Robert Kopp wrote: I have used a number of operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, and am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered partial support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there should be a native port of Ekiga. Just try it: uvideo(4) supports most (USB) webcams and ekiga is in ports. I don't think Skype works, though. Joachim
Re: UVC Webcams
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Robert Kopp iconoklas...@yahoo.com wrote: I have used a number of operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, and am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered partial support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there should be a native port of Ekiga. Robert Tim Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ UVC cams should just work. Why not just try it with OpenBSD installed onto an usbstick? :)
Re: UVC Webcams
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT), Robert Kopp wrote: I have used a number of operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, and am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered partial support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there should be a native port of Ekiga. Robert Tim Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ From my personal experiences -- I wouldn't count on Skype. I could get it to run, but I couldn't make it display cyrillic characters properly and it worked somewhat oddly, ultimately it would freeze up after a few minutes of work. USB webcams work.
Re: UVC Webcams
I tested Skype on NetBSD and DragonflyBSD where is newer Linux emulation (SuSe 10), but it wasn't running by default because of problem directly in SuSe so you need newer libasound.so.2 but not much newer :-) And you need version of Skype which is in FreeBSD ports 2.0.0.72. It's possible to download it from some places on Internet. Of course that you will get only chat. On OpenBSD it was running with older version of Skype. Newer versions are not running and app just hangs or create core dump or start without displaying contacts. It's because of older Linux emulation layer in OpenBSD and because Skype changes their binary so much. Didn't played with it for some time now, but I'm sure that it's possible to get it running and main source of problems seems to be correct version of libasound.so.2 and Skype binary. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Robert Kopp iconoklas...@yahoo.com wrote: I have used a number of operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, and am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered partial support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there should be a native port of Ekiga. Robert Tim Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ -- http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
