[arch-general] udev

[Juan Diego Tascón]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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

I ran that and it didn't return anything, are these ids stored inside
the modules (*.ko)?

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