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[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 12:50 US/Pacific, Randy wrote:

> Thanks to Shay and Jarod for suggestions that got me past ivtv 
> dependency
> errors.  Did some work last night and made some progress, got ivtv
> installed, at least I think it is.
> Got as far as this step in Jarods' guide:
>
>     $  ll /dev/video0 and got back
>     crw-------    1 mythtv   root       81,   0 Jan 30  2003 
> /dev/video0
>     Seems OK to me, different date and root instead of sys owner but 
> video0
> seems to be the correct device name.

That part looks fine.

>     Unfortunately the next step
>     # /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -u 0x3000
>     Returns device not found video0.

That probably means your ivtv drivers didn't load the card to 
/dev/video0 (if it loaded it at all).

>     I looked in /dev and there is a video0 but there is also a video1.
>     Also looked in /usr/lib/ivtv and there is an executable there 
> called
>     test_ioctl.

They can be there with or without a card present...

>     No error messages up to this poing so not sure what is wrong.  Any
>     suggestions would be appreciated.

# /sbin/modprobe ivtv
# /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -a

See what kind of results you get with that. It should spit out all your 
card's settings. If that succeeds, then try setting the video standard 
again. I'm thinking that your ivtv driver never loaded...

--Jarod

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