I have been trying to figure out how to disable the webcam in openSUSE 11.2. The device address is: /dev/video0
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On 01/04/2010 05:36 PM, NC10 wrote:
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> I have been trying to figure out how to disable the webcam in openSUSE
> 11.2. The device address is: /dev/video0
You need to find which driver the device is using and unload it. To find the
driver name, open a terminal and type the command hwinfo. In the output it
produces, find your webcam. For mine, I get
53: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device
[Created at usb.122]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4f2_b016_SN0001_if0_logicaldev_input
Unique ID: Uc5H.ytYx8JQ1xO7
Parent ID: k4bc.OqydEZZ981A
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0
SysFS BusID: 1-4:1.0
Hardware Class: unknown
Model: “Chicony Electronics HP Webcam”
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x04f2 “Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd”
Device: usb 0xb016 “HP Webcam”
Revision: “6.04”
Serial ID: “SN0001”
Driver: “uvcvideo”
Driver Modules: “uvcvideo”
To disable my device, I would need to
sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv uvcvideo
Thank you, that worked. I successfully disabled the camera. Now how would I go about re-enabling it if I wanted to use it?
su -c ‘modprobe uvcvideo’
would reload the driver, and make the cam useable.