search

patjak / facetimehd

Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam
GNU General Public License v2.0
1.35k stars 160 forks source link

modprobe -r bdc_pci output: modprobe: FATAL : Module bdc_pci not found. (zorin os 16) #252

Open gamerseye123 opened 2 years ago

gamerseye123 commented 2 years ago

so im trying to get the driver to automatically load on startup, and i have to run modprobe -r bdc_pci but it cant find bdc_pcie. what do i do?

zetaomegagon commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure I understand. That modprobe -r bdc_pci doesn't find bdc_pcie seems to imply that it isn't loaded.

Why do you need modeprobe -r bdc_pci to work?

zetaomegagon commented 2 years ago

@gamerseye123 sorry for the late reply. We'll need more context to troubleshoot your issue. For instance...

  1. What steps did you use to install the driver?
  2. What steps did you take to attempt loading the driver at boot?
  3. Provide the logs from the following command, or similar, just after booting up: journalctl -x | grep -iE 'facetime(|hd| hd)'
zetaomegagon commented 2 years ago

I also suggest changing the title to describe the current state of the issue. Something like: [Zorin OS 16] - Unable to get driver to load at boot

patjak commented 2 years ago

bdc_pcie is removed from more recent kernels so it is no longer required to unload it. If it fails to unload, then it's simply not loaded :) Automatic loading of the facetimehd module on startup should be fixed with the latest commit 8431504df5a1d058fc5888f6bb695de859dbf22f

pasan93 commented 2 years ago

so im trying to get the driver to automatically load on startup, and i have to run modprobe -r bdc_pci but it cant find bdc_pcie. what do i do?

Same error on Pop!_OS 21.10 and 22.04

larsblumberg commented 1 year ago

Just remove (=do not execute) the line modprobe -r bdc_pci, it's no longer required for recent Ubuntu/Pop_OS! versions because bdc_pci is simply not a loaded module any longer.