QuickCam Pro 5000

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 11:22 +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at ignoranthack.me> wrote:
> > I have this logitech webcam, it shows up in usbconfig as:
> >
> > ugen0.3: <product 0x08c5 vendor 0x046d> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST
> > spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
> >
> > I thought that this was supported by uvc(4) at one point in the distant
> > past, but I can't seem to remember how to get it working again.
> >
> > cuse4bsd seems to load fine, but doesn't seem to be doing anything with
> > it:
> >
> >
> > root at alice:/home/sbruno # kldload cuse4bsd
> > Cuse4BSD v0.1.33 @ /dev/cuse
> >
> >
> > root at alice:/home/sbruno # /usr/local/sbin/webcamd
> > Attached to ugen0.3[0]
> > Creating /dev/video0
> 
> This should now be usable, eg with pwcview:
> 
>   pwcview -s vga /dev/video0
> 
> >
> > Note, the webcam rc.d script doesn't seem to want to do anything on my
> > machine:  rc.conf has webcamd_enable="YES"
> >
> 
> Do you have
> 
>   cuse4bsd_load="YES"
> 
> in /boot/loader.conf ? Without it, webcamd_enable="YES" in rc.conf
> won't do much.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom


Ah, turns out there's a USB 3 problem here.  Moving the webcam to a 2.0
port seems to work fine.  I'll debug some more and post the freebsd-usb.

Just for the record, this webcam *works* just fine with cheese/pwcview.

sean