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On Monday 29 November 2004 21:10, Rob Beard wrote:Thanks Robin,
My web cam is a Viewquiet Tech M318B camera which was supplied with an old Time K6/2 450 PC. The camera works nicely under Windows, ut's a USB device, and I think I've been fairly lucky to find a driver which works under a 2.6 kernel, compiles and even works!
Now, I'm wondering, how do I start the module on startup? It seems a bit long winded to open a terminal, run su and then type in a command line with options to start the driver.
Assuming the driver is a video for linux type driver V4L and it results in a /dev/video0 interface for you to use add for following to /etc/modprobe.conf
alias /dev/video0 thenameofyourmodule
if the module needs options also add
options thenameofyourmodule option=value
This type of thing should work for most modules, i think. I am not quite sure how it starts but i assume that when a program attemts to access /dev/video0 it will kick the module if it is not loaded and everthing just works. This is certainly true for my wintv card and that is how i load the modules at boot.
Anyway, apart from that everything has been a positive expeirience.
Oh, futher to my asking about DVD Shrink, it does work under Wine, but it doesn't seem to work as well as under Windows. I don't mind dual booting for now until I find a similar alternative.
Wine (by its nature) is unprectible, one week it works well next week not at all the following in between, keep trying!
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