From 6cb84f00df6562ae8f2ce4faefd7e87e68ba7101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Traina Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:08:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document ability to skip auto-probe --- share/man/man4/man4.i386/qcam.4 | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/qcam.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/qcam.4 index 23093b563a8..2159ca8969e 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/qcam.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/qcam.4 @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ The driver can share the same port with the lpt driver, however it is reccommended that the lpt driver be configured for polled operation if this sharing is to be done. +The auto-detection code for the camera is reported to +be flakey at times. Until this is resolved, it may be bypassed by +by adding "flags 1" to your kernel configuration. .Sh IOCTLS The following .Xr ioctl 2 @@ -63,7 +66,14 @@ The QuickCam reverse engineering project, http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/ The .Nm driver is new to -.Tn FreeBSD . +.Tn FreeBSD. +.Sh BUGS +The driver spin-waits in the kernel, which means on large transfers, +the system will be chewing down a lot of time. Doing full motion video +at 320x240 is not reccomended until this is fixed. + +The driver's auto-detection code for finding a camera on a parallel port +is not reliable on all hardware. See the note above for bypass information. .Sh AUTHOR The .Nm