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

Jeff "Muddy" Waters mythtv at muddysmind.com
Sun Dec 21 13:35:55 EST 2003


geezzz... rough morning... I found it.

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 13:28, Jeff "Muddy" Waters wrote:
> Ok, I know this may sound dumb but where is "setup" in gentoo?????
> 
> lol,I did the emerge so I didn't compile it by hand and as such there is
> no setup directory.
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:33, Jeff "Muddy" Waters wrote:
> > 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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