uvc & webcamd

[yoe]

i have PK-910H.
FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC i386
webcamd -B -d ugen3.3 -i 0 -v 0
webcamd: webcamd: illegal user name
kldload: can't load cuse4bsd: module already loaded or in kernel

 

[ronaldlees]

Hi yoe, it sounds like you haven't added yourself to the webcamd group. Try:

pw groupmod webcamd -m yoe

BTW, welcome to the forum and congrats on your first post!

- Ron

 

[Phishfry]

Instead of running webcamd with the -B flag (background) Try without that command to see exactly what is going on.
When you run it in the background you lose verbosity. Use your virtual terminals(Ctlt-Alt-F2,Ctl-Alt-F3 ect.) to fire up pwcview

There is also this:
chmod 666 /dev/video

How to install webcamd in FreeBSD 8.0 or later

www.rockafunk.org

 

[yoe]

sudo kldload cuse4bsd
kldload: can't load cuse4bsd: module already loaded or in kernel

but kldstat don't show cuse4bsd module. and also :
webcamd -d ugen3.2 -i 0 -v 0
webcamd: webcamd: illegal user name

also :
root@suzi:/usr/home/u4 # webcamd -B -d ugen3.2 -i 0 -v 0
webcamd: webcamd: illegal user name

 

[yoe]

<Ivan_83wr> pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd