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



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