Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Holland
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).

RE: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
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

Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)

2006-02-14 Thread Mike Hernandez
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