[arch-general] udev

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 09.06.2010 02:38, schrieb 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?
> 

In the above case, you would run:
modprobe --resolve-alias usb:v0AC8p305Bd0100dcFFdsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF

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