Re: running a logitech quickcam 4000 on a netbsd raspberry pi

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sat, 6 Feb 2016 18:39:02 -0500
    From:        Marina Brown <marina%e271.net@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <56B68416.2080300%e271.net@localhost>

  |  Would adding [...]

No, as has been pointed out, the uvideo driver would be in your kernel
already - I just failed to notice as the way it was done in the config
file was not what I was expecting.   Just run nm /netbsd | grep uvideo
and you'll see it.

The best solution for you is almost certainly the one that Michael van Elst
found ...
	http://home.384.jp/takam/bsd/NetBSD.html

That has code that will (if it is as advertised) do exactly what you want,
even down to having a version that does not require fancy graphics libraries
but just reads from the camera into a file.   It does require a kernel patch
for the Quickcam, and was done on NetBSD 6, not 7, but the patch is just to
add entries to usbdevs, and to the usb quirks table, so applying that to
NetBSD 7 should be trivial (unless those have already been made, in which case
it will be even easier!).   I didn't look at the sources for the programs
(which apparently just access the camera via the ugen interface) but the
only likely problems with that should be caused by the newer gcc in 7 compared
to 6, which might mean doing some code cleanups (or it might all just work.)

Good luck.

kre