From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: The problem is twofold: 1) the video: kudzu detects correctly the USB webcam, writes the informations in the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file (see attachment) and activate an alias, but it don't insert the informations in the /etc/modules.conf file. Then, when I try to use the webcam, for exemple with Gnomemeeting, the program can't accede to the video1 device (in the video0 there is a TV card correctly configured from kudzu with the exact line in the modules.conf file). The problem was present in 8.0 too: I go to the file /var/log/messages and I search the alias called from modprobe, I find it, for exemple char-major-81-1, and I add the line "alias char-major-81-1 pwc" to the modules.conf file. In this way it seems to work. 2) the audio: this webcam have a microphone integrated. After the video part, kudzu detects the audio part, but there is immediatly a problem: it asks me more than 20 times if I want install the new sound card WebCam, ecc. I say ok all the times. This time kudzu writes these lines to modules.conf file: alias sound-slot-1 audio post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : (the sound-slot-0 is a Creative Sound Card that works perfectly). In the hwconf file, instead, it writes 20 times the same thing (see attachment). This thing is visible in the Hardware Browser utility (see the URL). In the /var/log/messages, when the audio is called, there is alway something of similar to this: (see the usbaudio.txt file) I don't know if this thing is normal, but I'm not able to hear nothing from the integrated microphone. Maybe I don't operate correctly? Excuse me for the length: I hope -at least - to have been exhausting. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. I plug in the USB webcam 2. I try it, but the video1 device is not available 3. I don't hear nothing from the integrated microphone Actual Results: To make to work the webcam is a hard work ;-) Expected Results: The webcam works without my intervention. Additional info: The problem is the same with RedHat Psyche.
Created attachment 89937 [details] hwconf file from kudzu
Created attachment 89938 [details] From the messages file
In current releases, such as Fedora Core 4, the modules should be loaded automatically via hotplug and udev, and the problem with multiple interfaces being over-listed (for usb audio) has since been fixed. Closing this bug out.