[H-GEN] using webcam on linux & windows

[Johann Kwiatkowski]

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On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 20:57, Stuart Longland wrote:
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> Johann Kwiatkowski wrote:
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> ~ parport_pc             19012   1
> | qcamvc_usb              5500   0 (autoclean)
> | qcamvc                 15736   1 [qcamvc_usb]
> |
> | the last two relate to my quickcam vc webcam
> |
> | so to remove them I would type as root,
> |
> | rmmod qcamvc and then rmmod qcamvc_usb
> 
> Wouldn't it be the other way around?  qcamvc_usb depends on qcamvc, so
> rmmod wouldn't let you remove qcamvc without removing qcamvc_usb first.
> 
> I could be wrong -- but this has been my experience.

doh! you are right, I mis-read what the way the modules were dependent. I should have tested it first, thanks

cheers

Johann




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