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

[Stephen L. Ulmer]

On 16 Dec 2003, d_latka at yahoo.com mused:
> I originally used the post you mention to get ivtv to work.
> However, after rebooting, it no longer works due to the /dev/video0
> file turning itself into a directory.  It's like something in a boot
> script is purposely making vidio0 a directory.  I have not been able
> to find it.
>
> I tried doing a 'grep -R video0 /*' to find all instances of
> 'video0' in all the files on the machine, but it turns out that grep
> has a bug in it that fills the disk cache, runs out of memory and
> crashes the entire machine.
>
> Does anyone know where I could look to find a script or program that
> could be doing this?  Since I'm a newbie to Linux, I don't know
> enough about boot scripts, but does anyone know how I could run the
> command lines 'rmdir /dev/video0' then 'ln -s 4vl/video0
> /dev/video0' at bootup so that I could brute force kludge my way
> past this issue?

I don't think grep has a bug, I think your grep got to /proc/kcore...

Look at /etc/devfs.d and /etv/devfs.conf, just to see if something
weird got added.

-- 
Stephen