[arch-general] udev

[Matthew Monaco]

On 06/08/2010 02:41 AM, Jan de Groot 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.
> 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.
>
>

I've been having these problems with my webcam (which as a built-in mic) and my 
digital camera. What has changed that makes these issues happen all of the 
sudden? Also, does anyone know of a good site to lookup drivers for these devices?