From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OWL1N-0004A1-21 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:10:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50658E0941; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 03:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DF4E0941 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 03:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so2322416qwj.40 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:09:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=veIJt4WV4hWbHv4TcTDcErekUBPQSEz4I7UgoozuLJM=; b=ABkKevW7O5TOhOzM6IH1N30RK5PZUa1cdCJ0+frWTINlMdUm2/egH3WMNdygc6gvKU otbJE2HFTLb7B3og9p4NslzqpMzbxYAvqj092iZx8ubgC0IEdw9jG7DBinrEnnKwwGzt Om1zCf3XI0VoIiYChl6UNxu8ijcUK47Rue7sk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fZCy/fdL2CDwWwM3CU/q6HnshTjMe3cxPyVkr3DecBm/GajkDK1N362H1eRh6J/UUY te13m2j7QseoWJBg9MGi9B4lBmH7Qm43GaNDovWmSlgbe97gWEp8WBs8RiXjZJA9s96J DgqxFtI45a9pJ2fpqYuMxlsjehrijtNow61Jc= Received: by 10.224.45.208 with SMTP id g16mr2991222qaf.326.1278472157658; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.142] ([74.196.96.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m24sm26417044qck.41.2010.07.06.20.09.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C33EFDC.8080205@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:09:16 -0500 From: James Wall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-uvc References: <20100323193539.1ce936ba@amparo> <20100701235417.GE9344@vidovic> In-Reply-To: <20100701235417.GE9344@vidovic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 995969a8-b6d0-44f1-995d-b5fdd49f06c0 X-Archives-Hash: e13a2d99175555b80d3737491b707f33 On 7/1/2010 6:54 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:35:39PM +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: >> >> I've an caer TravelMate 5720 and I'd like to use my webcam (Suyin). >> >> I've read some docs and say that I should use uvc driver from kernel >> and not linux-uvc driver from portage. But portage package also >> contains user-space tools for USB cameras, so, if I use kernel driver, >> How may I get the tools? > > What tools are you talking about? > >> Anyone who is using uvc could explain me his experience? > the original driver was built outside the kernel tree and was called linux-uvc. the driver has since been added to the kernel and is no longer necessary. tools available include media-video/luvcview which is only available for ~x86 and media-video/guvcview. -- James Wall No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.