Webcam recommendations

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, March 21, 2011 a las 12:27:55PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky escribió:

> On Monday 21 March 2011 12:21:41 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > A side note: Hans, the above mentioned Philips SPC900NC shows up on
> > plug-in as:
> > 
> > Feb  2 08:11:07 current root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0471 product
> > 0x0329 bus uhub2

This line from /var/log/messages is from a system which does not run
webcamd nor hald;

> > 
> > but in pwc.4 as 0471:0320; the source itself 
> > v4l-dvb-abd3aac6644e/linux/drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-if.c
> > contains the correct value:
> > 
> > $ fgrep 0329 v4l-dvb-abd3aac6644e/linux/drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-if.c
> >         { USB_DEVICE(0x0471, 0x0329) }, /* Philips SPC 900NC PC Camera
> >         */
> 
> I think this printout comes from somewhere else, like hald. Try starting 
> webcamd without the -H option.

The above line from /var/log/messages (0x0471:0x0329) is exactly what
you source has and what as well is in 

$ fgrep 0x0329 /usr/ports/multimedia/pwcbsd/work/pwcbsd/pwc.c
  {USB_VPI(0x0471, 0x0329, 740)}, /* Philips SPC900NC */

i.e. the deviceID of SPC900NC is 0x0329 and not 0x0320 as your man page
says, it's just a typo in the man page, I think.

	matthias

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