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