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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: QuickCam and 2.1.7
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:55:44 GMT
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Pascal Gienger (Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de) wrote:
: Stephan Forth <stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> wrote:
: 
: : I#d like to use the Connectics QuickCam with my 2.1.7 FreeBSD.
: : I already got the driver sources (qcamdriver-1.1.tar.gz)
: : but I don't know how to put that all together. Unfortunately
: : there is no Installation-Readme.
: 
: Isn't there already quickcam support in the kernel?
: Search for "qcam0" in /sys/i386/conf/LINT.

Yes, you're right! I didn't see that because I was just looking
for qcamcontrol etc. I didn't check the LINT file.

: 
: To use it, try to search nv-qcam from the net. There should be a BSD
: version of it.

Found it in the FreeBSD-incoming directory of ftp.rider.no

I will take a look at it later today. 

Thanks for the hint!

Regards, Stephan


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