[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 38

[Albert Lee]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Bob Hoekstra <bob.hoekstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:54:06 +0100, russell <stream at willows7.myzen.co.uk>
> wrote
>> Hi,
>> <trim>
>>While I can access my Logitech E3500 webcam from with WinXP running with
>>a VBox, the Cheese Webcam Booth appears to activate the camera (its
>>light comes on) but no video appears. I tried identifying the device as
>>a usbvc device, as below
>>
>># prtconf -v | grep "usbvc"
>>        value='NAME= usbvc1 Power' + '0=USB D3 State' + '3=USB D0 State'
>>        dev_path=/pci at 0,0/pci15d9,1411 at 2,1/miscellaneous at 4/video at 0:usbvc
>>
>># update_drv -a -i "pci15d9,1411" usbvc
>>
>>This resulted in my computer locking up, I could not even access it via an
> ssh session as it required a reboot.
>>

The device you added is your USB controller chip on the PCI bus, not
your camera, and your camera was already using the usbvc driver.

-Albert