v4l howto and help request

Hi! This is a short guide on how to build webcamd and a request for help. webcamd is a port of Linux v4l drivers as a system daemon. I'm tryng to get it working so that I can migrate my desktop someday. Webcam support is mandatory or my sister will be upset ;-) Here are my steps: 1. Install l

Bug#594483: BSD fetch

Package: freebsd-utils Version: 8.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hello there! I've been playing with webcamd from video4bsd project to see if I can get my webcam to work on kFreeBSD, but to run the make fetch target I was missing the BSD fetch command. BSD fetch is a lot like wget which is already pre

Bug#594330: libusb2 doesn't detect any devices

Package: libusb2 Version: 8.1-3 Severity: grave Tags: patch Hi! libusb2 is unusable because libusb_get_device_list doesn't detect any devices. This happens because libusb20_be_alloc_ugen20 is disabled. This problem can be reproduced with lsusb from http://code.google.com/p/segin-utils/source/b

Bug#594183: can't build kernel modules

Package: freebsd-buildutils Version: 8.1-1 Severity: normal Hi there I was trying to build cuse4bsd and freebsd-make gives this critical error: cd: 1: can't cd to /usr/src/sys/x86_64/include Kernel sources are in /usr/src/sys, but freebsd-make is looking at the wrong directory. the directory f

Re: APM support kernel

--- On Sun, 8/22/10, AngelD wrote: >     I have a old > portable IBM ThinkPad T20. This it does not work > with ACPI (hal freeze the computer), only work with APM. I > need to > recompile the kfreebsd kernel with other options. > >     How compile the kernel?.  A manual > of kfreebsd kernel > co

Re: GNU/kFreeBSD debian-installer

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Please test it on your machine or favorite virtualization software and > report the issues on the mailing list. Please note that ext2 support is > slightly broken (wrong entry in /etc/fstab), it should be fixed in > tomorrow's build. I tested today's k