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

[Marina Brown <marina%e271.net@localhost>]

On 02/06/2016 09:33 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     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
> 
> 
Thanks All !!

--- Marina