On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:51:35AM +0800, Nick Coleman wrote: > I would like to get a USB webcam working on my PowerPC OpenBSD 4.9 > install. I'm an OpenBSD newbie. > > When I plug it in, the kernel registers the USB device, but doesn't > go any further to recognise it as a video device. The last line > of dmesg is: > ugen1 at uhub1 port 1 "Vimicro Corp. PC Camera" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 3 > > The following is from my Slackware box (for info on the device type > and the drivers): > ----------Start Slackware--------------------------------------- > > mplayer recognises it using the V4L2 driver: > $ mplayer -tv device=/dev/video1 tv:// > MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team > 115 audio & 237 video codecs > Playing tv://. > TV file format detected. > Selected driver: v4l2 > name: Video 4 Linux 2 input > author: Martin Olschewski <[email protected]> > comment: first try, more to come ;-) > Selected device: PC Camera > Capabilites: video capture read/write streaming > supported norms: > inputs: 0 = zc3xx; > Current input: 0 > Current format: unknown (0x4745504a) > > >From Slackware's dmesg: > usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 > usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0ac8, idProduct=301b
<snip> > gspca: main v2.4.0 registered > gspca: probing 0ac8:301b > zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000 > zc3xx: probe sensor -> 11 > zc3xx: Find Sensor HV7131R(c) > PM: Adding info for No Bus:video1 > gspca: probe ok > usbcore: registered new interface driver zc3xx > zc3xx: registered this is not UVC compliant, so uvideo(4) doesn't support it. in linux this is using the gspca driver: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html there is no driver for this device in OpenBSD, sorry. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
