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

Jelle Kalf jelle at kalf.org
Sun Dec 21 11:40:17 EST 2003


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
> 
> 


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