[mythtv-users] Gentoo and ivtv - HELP!!!

[Bruce C. Dillahunty]

Well, I'll toss in a couple more things to look at:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=71263&highlight=dev+video0

Seems to sound just like your situation (I guess that's not you in that 
posting :-)).

I note that the symptoms you are seeing can be seen if you don't have 
the firmware "ready" (stripped out of the *.exe) and in a place it can 
be found and loaded by the module (/lib/modules on my machine).

Did that part work ok for you?

Bruce

David Latka wrote:
> I put into my /etc/devfsd.conf:
> 
> 	REGISTER       ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink v4l/video0 video
> 
> This creates link file: /dev/video -> v4l/video
> 
> So I changed the line to:
> 
> 	REGISTER       ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink v4l/video0 video0
> 
> 
> But once again, when I reboot, a directory '/dev/video0' is created instead
> of a link file.
> 
> In order to get mythbackend to run, I must manually 'rmdir /dev/video0'
> Then either 'mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0' or 'ln -s 4vl/video0 /dev/video0'.
> 
> I'm REALLY getting frustrated that I cannot solve this problem and I've
> completely run out of ideas.
> 
> BTW, I already had the following in the file '/etc/modules.d/itvt'
> 
> 	alias char-major-81 videodev
> 	alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> 	options ivtv ivtv_debug=1
> 	options tuner type=2
> 	options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
> 	add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
> 
> And 'ivtv' is in the file /etc/modules.autoload
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Jelle Kalf
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:40 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and ivtv - HELP!!!
> 
> # Video4Linux devices
> REGISTER       v4l/.*       PERMISSIONS root.video 660
> REGISTER       ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink v4l/video0 video
> 
> # LIRC devices
> REGISTER       lirc/.*       PERMISSIONS root.video 660
> REGISTER       lircd         PERMISSIONS root.video 660
> REGISTER       lircm         PERMISSIONS root.video 660
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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