Problem with HAL on Feisty - notebook internal webcam mounts and unmounts endlessly

[Nils Kassube]

s3ma4 wrote:
> Greetings, i just did a fresh install of Feisty Fawn on an Acer Aspire
> 5670. Previously I had Dapper working on here without problems.
> However, I get the messages below in my kern.log and syslog files. It
> might be a kernel bug as described here (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/8191
>5 ). I updated the kernel to 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP, but the problem
> persists. I'm really just interested in figuring out how to stop this
> error from coming up, even if it means disabling the device (a logitech
> built in webcam which I dont use) ... but i cannot find any
> documentation or configuration file to tell hald to ignore this device

Blacklist the kernel module gspca (which is used for for the camera) and 
unload the module. In a terminal (e.g. konsole) enter these commands:

sudo sh -c "echo 'blacklist gspca' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cam"
sudo rmmod gspca


Nils