[mythtv-users] ivtv-0.4.0 autodetection

Drew Tomlinson drew at mykitchentable.net
Sat Nov 5 18:52:27 EST 2005


On 10/29/2005 4:04 PM Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Dennis Hand wrote:
>
>> I know that the new ivtv autodetects but are you supposed to have 
>> anything in modprobe.conf
>> at all? For example
>>  
>> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>> etc.....
>
>
> Yes, you need:
>
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>
> (assuming your first two capture cards are ivtv) and nothing else for 
> the PVR-x50's.


Not necessarily.  According to the ivtv wiki 
(http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto), you don't need this if you have 
devfs or udev.

Cheers,

Drew

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