Hi all Happy New Year to ya! Santa brought me a new Webcam that, it turns out, is not quite supported under Linux. No matter, I was going to give it a go with the ZC030x driver and see if anything happens. (The camera is a Creative Webcam NX Pro). Anyway, it raised the question, when I plug the camera into the USB port, the usb system recognizes that something is plugged in. Somehow, it needs to know to load a video driver to activate /dev/video, but how does the usb system know what to load? modprobe.conf contains a line 'alias char-major-81 videodev' which should get it loaded but "someone" in the system needs to know how to call that. I don't quite understand yet how the USB system pulls in the modules that it might need, anyone have any clues or pointers to further reading on the matter? TIA jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E