Restart required for webcam to work; how to manually restart?

[micdhack]

micdhack@micdhack-laptop:~$ sudo rmmod uvcvideo
micdhack@micdhack-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe uvcvideo
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Error inserting uvcvideo (/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvcvideo.ko): Cannot allocate memory

[ItalOz]

I have recently installed 9.10 and I hit the same problem on my Inspiron 1525 laptop with integrated webcam but these two commands from micdhack (thanks) did the job

sudo rmmod uvcvideo
sudo modprobe uvcvideo

[Otto Nascarella]

yeah....

rmmod + modprobe worked fine.

hopefully they'll find the little bug that needs killing soon

ciao!

[angadarora]

I want to disable my system camera so i am blacklisting it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf using command "blacklist uvcvideo".
But I want my external camera to work instead of that which works with the same command "sudo modprobe uvcvideo".So whenever i am giving this command ,system's camera also gets enabled which i dont want.

So is there any way I can pass the parameter in that command to disable the system camera permanently.