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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Below is a paragraph from Jarod’s Guide.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>You can determine exactly what device ivtv is
configured on by looking in /var/log/dmesg. For example, you should see
something like this:</span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'># cat /var/log/dmesg |grep ivtv<br>
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip<br>
tuner: probing ivtv i2c driver #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]<br>
saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)<br>
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040008<br>
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0 <---This is the specific
entry we're interested in<br>
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32<br>
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224</span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>None of the entries are in my /var/log/dmesg
file. Is this a problem? I am confused here because I am able to capture
video with cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg and play it back with
mplayer.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Tommy</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
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