Re: making me automaticly logged in?
On Monday 18 September 2017 11:39:26 Tixy wrote:
> 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.
Looks ideal, but the hub/port.number does't exist. I'll go reboot it and
see what it shows up that tree. Back in a bit.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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