Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

["Karol Pietrzak" <noodlez84@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Sep 2001, Richard Booth wrote:

> I have two systems one running Mandrake 8 and another running
> SuSE 7.2. Mandrake 8 has a module for a Logitech USB Quick Cam
> Express which loads automatically when xawtv starts, however I
> gather this is a Mandrake patch, as the same camera does not work
> on SuSE 7.2 without using an external driver which I have to
> insmod manually.  
> 
> How do I go about patching the SuSE kernel to get this driver to
> load automatically?

Well, what you can do for now is copy the module from Mandrake 
into SuSE. :)  Find out what the module's name is (run 'lsmod' 
before and after loading xawtv).  Find that module and copy it 
to SuSE's modules (/lib/modules/2.4.X).  Run 'depmod -a'.  You 
also need to configure the automatic loading of this module.  Do 
this on your Mandrake machine:
cat /etc/modules.conf | grep <module_name>

Check whether the appropriate lines exist in Mandrake's 
/etc/modules.conf .  If not, copy them to SuSE's 
/etc/modules.conf .  That should work...
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