Bug 283719 – x11-misc/mando (New Package)

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aleksandr Yakimov 2009-09-05 05:46:08 UTC]

mando is a human computer interface using a camera and a projector. The camera is calibrated against a projection area to determine the position of a physical pointer (i.e. pen, LED diode or laser pointer light) which is then used to virtually move and generate events of a X11 pointer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Aleksandr Yakimov 2009-09-05 05:47:28 UTC]

Created attachment 203175 [details]
mando-1.7.1.ebuild

[Comment 2 José María Fernández González 2012-06-14 11:01:25 UTC]

Created attachment 315269 [details]
mando-1.8.2.ebuild

[Comment 3 José María Fernández González 2012-06-14 11:01:55 UTC]

Created attachment 315271 [details, diff]
mando-1.8.2-v4l1-compat.patch

[Comment 4 José María Fernández González 2012-06-14 11:04:10 UTC]

I have just added a new ebuild for version 1.8.2. The main problem I have found is that, as it uses v4l1, even patching the sources in order to find the compatibility v4l1 header, the only way to get it working with your webcam is using next trick:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so mando