[arch-general] udev

Madhurya Kakati mkakati2805 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 06:37:23 EDT 2010


2010/6/8 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:16 +0900, Juan Diego Tascón wrote:
>>> Good day,
>>>
>>> I'm getting an error every time I plug-in my webcam as a result the
>>> corresponding module is not being loaded automatically so I have to
>>> load it by myself. Any one knows a way to fix this?
>>>
>>> This is the error:
>>>
>>> load-modules.sh: 'usb:v0AC8p305Bd0100dcFFdsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF' is
>>> not a valid module or alias name
>>
>> There's no kernel module for your webcam installed. You'll have to find
>> out what driver it uses and udev will load the driver when you hotplug
>> your webcam.
>
> Actually it is installed, it is called gspca_zc3xx, if I load it the
> webcam works, the thing is it is not being loaded automatically
>
>> All modules have device aliases for the devices it supports. Udev just
>> tries to load a module by devicename and gives your error if it can't
>> succeed.
>
> Should I report this to the udev developers?
>
>>
>>
>

adding the module name to modules part of /etc/rc.conf might help. it
will be loaded automatically then.


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