On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:31:44PM +0100, rene wrote: > a few times when I started kwintv or xawtv the program stopped (crashed ?) > just after starting it. So it didn´t return the device to proper status. I > couldn´t close the screen so I killed it with "xkill". But the device is still > busy. How can reset it without rebooting? 1.use real kill, "ps auxw", kill -9 pid 2.use rmmod, to remove module (for example "rmmod bttv"), then load it again IIRC sometime it was impossible with very old bttv (hmmm... this version is still in linux-2.2.x) -- Every time I climb the mountain And it turned into a hill I promised me that I'd move on And I will. "Strange Highways" - Ronnie James Dio
