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

[Jeff "Muddy" Waters]

checking it out now, thanks bro.

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:21, David Latka wrote:
> I just had the same problem getting ivtv to work on Gentoo.
> 
> The discussion thread might help.
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=95095;search_st
> ring=HELP%21%21%21;guest=1845817&t=search_engine#95095
> 
> Of particular help was this link:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=71263&highlight=ivtv
> 
> In your particular case, make sure your /etc/devfsd.conf has the following
> lines in it:
> 
> # Video4Linux devices
> REGISTER v4l/.* PERMISSIONS root.video 660
> REGISTER ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink v4l/video0 video0
> 
> The symlink line will create a symlink in the /dev directory which points
> video0 to v4l/video0
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Dave Latka
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Jeff "Muddy" Waters
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: mythtv-users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] no /dev/video device in Gentoo, help
> 
> 
> 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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