[H-GEN] using webcam on linux & windows

David davido at bigpond.net.au
Mon Sep 8 04:45:38 EDT 2003


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 El Lun 08 Sep 2003 10:57 AM, Ewan Edwards escribió:
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> On Friday 5 September 2003 07:45 pm, David wrote:
> > running Mandrake 9.0 with Win200 in VMWare
> >
> > I installed a Logitech webcam in Windows and when I try to use it I get a
> > message about the host already having control of the device. I'd like to
> > be able to use it in Linux but I want to get it going in Windows first.
> > Does anyone know what I have to do to get Linux to release it so VMware
> > can take control?
>
> My guess would be that you need to unload the host machine's driver that is
> controlling the device.  VMware should then be able to provide a virtual
> USB interface to the guest system that it looks at to find the webcam.
>
How do I unload the driver? I thought of that but don't know how to do it.

> If my guess is correct, the next thing to find out is whether or not the
> host machine's driver is a loadable module that can be unloaded before
> starting the VMware instance.

again, how do I do that?
David the newbie

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