[cpia] Any FreeBSDers in here?

[Alan Corey]

Just wondering if anyone has been trying to get this to work with FreeBSD.

FreeBSD has a built-in implementation of the IEEE-1284 layer as of 
version 3 that can be configured into the kernel or loaded as a module:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppi&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+3.4-RELEASE
but it lacks the Video 4 Linux infrastructure.

My interest with my Webcam II is in time-lapse photography or traditional 
frame-per-minute webcam use, so I'm not very interested in trying to get 
real time video out of it.  The Windows drivers available from Creative 
won't allow any frame rate between 1 per minute as fast event logging and 
1 per second as slow video.  Still, I've had some fun doing animations of 
accelerated clouds overhead and sunsets.

I don't know much C, and I've only written a half-dozen or so simple C 
programs in the unix environment, but I'm wondering how close the parport 
interface written for this might come to FreeBSD's built-in one.  Might 
it be possible to use this client module with the FreeBSD interface after 
some fairly minor changes?

  Alan Corey


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