[mythtv-users] no /dev/video device in Gentoo, help

[Jeff "Muddy" Waters]

I don't have an epia thing, whatever that is.
It's on my dual processor server. Does that make a difference?

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 11:40, Jelle Kalf wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> http://epia.kalf.org/
> 
> try the howto, it's quite clear on how to compile and load the ivtv module.
> 
> 
> On 21 Dec 2003 11:23:09 -0500
> "Jeff \"Muddy\" Waters" <mythtv at muddysmind.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings fellow Gentoo users.
> > 
> > I'm dying here.
> > 
> > I just switched this week from redhat 7.2 on my server to gentoo
> > gs-sources (since it's a smp server) and for the life of me can't get
> > ivtv modules to load.
> > 
> > So upon doing some checking found the machine does see the pvr-250 card.
> > When I run # cat /proc/pci
> > 
> > <!------------------ Begin Code ----------------->
> > Bus  0, device  20, function  0:
> >     Multimedia video controller: PCI device 4444:0016 (Internext
> > Compression Inc) (rev 1).
> >       IRQ 11.
> >       Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=8.
> >       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000 [0xd7ffffff].
> > <!--------------------End Code --------------->
> > 
> > However when I check /dev there is NO video listed.
> > 
> > I doubt I'll be able to load ivtv modules if there is no video device in
> > /dev... any ideas how to fix this?
> > I've never seen this happen before.
> > 
> > Thanks all.
> > 
> > - Jeff
> > 
> > 
>