[kde-freebsd] New version of webcamd and cuse4bsd available

Jan Henrik Sylvester me at janh.de
Thu Sep 2 19:37:13 CEST 2010


On 09/02/2010 00:31, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2010 00:29:55 Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>> # webcamd -d 0.5 -H
>> Attached ugen0.5[0] to cuse unit 0
>> Loading firmware at '/boot/modules/dvb-usb-wt220u-fc03.fw', f=7
>> Waiting for HAL USB device.
>> Waiting for HAL USB device.
>> # webcamd -d 0.5 -H
>> Attached ugen0.5[0] to cuse unit 0
>> Waiting for HAL USB device.
>> Waiting for HAL USB device.
>> Waiting for HAL USB device.
>> ...
>>
>> This goes on with one line a second. kaffeine still does not know about
>> my DVB-T stick.
>>
>> Yesterday, I tried the snv version of webcamd (but not cuse4bsd at that
>> time). It did not print the lines: "Waiting for HAL USB device." Anyhow,
>> kaffeine did not work and I verified with lshal that webcamd did not
>> change anything in hal.

> Make sure your installation of HAL is up to date, and that hald_enable=YES and
> dbus_enable=YES in rc.conf.

I have changed nothing but rebooted. The messages disappeared and 
kaffeine picks up the device. I must have missed to restart some daemon 
or kernel module.

My DVB-T stick works, now with HAL. My webcam still works as before.

Thanks,
Jan Henrik


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