I have used a number of operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, and am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered "partial" support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there should be a native port of Ekiga.

 
Robert "Tim" Kopp 
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Just try it: uvideo(4) supports most (USB) webcams and ekiga is in
ports. I don't think Skype works, though.

		Joachim

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On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT)

"UVC" cams should just work.
Why not just try it with OpenBSD installed onto an usbstick? :)

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From my personal experiences -- I wouldn't count on Skype. I could get
it to run, but I couldn't make it display cyrillic characters
properly and it worked somewhat oddly, ultimately it would freeze up
after a few minutes of work.
USB webcams work.

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I tested Skype on NetBSD and DragonflyBSD where is newer Linux
emulation (SuSe 10), but it wasn't running by default because of
problem directly in SuSe so you need newer libasound.so.2 but not much
newer :-) And you need version of Skype which is in FreeBSD ports
2.0.0.72. It's possible to download it from some places on Internet.
Of course that you will get only chat.

On OpenBSD it was running with older version of Skype. Newer versions
are not running and app just hangs or create core dump or start
without displaying contacts. It's because of older Linux emulation
layer in OpenBSD and because Skype changes their binary so much.
Didn't played with it for some time now, but I'm sure that it's
possible to get it running and main source of problems seems to be
correct version of libasound.so.2 and Skype binary.

am thinking about adding OpenBSD to the list. (This would be i386, or amd64 if
the latter has enough features: my hardware will support it). I use a UVC
Webcam with Linux, and it would increase my motivation to try OpenBSD if such
equipment would also work with that OS. I heard that 4.4 offered "partial"
support, and there are more recent releases than that. Has anyone here tried
using such a Webcam (say, with Skype or Ekiga?). Skype probably doesn't work
unless Linux emulation is pretty well-developed, as with FreeBSD, but there



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