Re: making me automaticly logged in?

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 11:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
> My instant problem, a disappearing usb camera, could also be solved I 
> think, by power cycling the usb port its plugged into, as it will 
> re-appear after a powerdown reboot, but I do not know how to do that 
> short of a powerdown reset.  If there is such an ability the user, or a 
> sudo can do, that would also be helpfull.

I don't know if this is useful, but the method I found for resetting a
USB device was to unbind then rebind it with something like:

echo '3-1.4' >/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind
echo '3-1.4' >/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/bind

Where '3-1.4' is the endpoint name for the device found by looking in
the kernel log. E.g. for this example I ran the 'dmesg' command and
looked for my web camera and found these entries:

usb 3-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
usb 3-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=2232, idProduct=1018
usb 3-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 3-1.4: Product: WebCam SC-13HDL11431N

I don't know if this will help with your particular problem.

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Tixy