[mythtv-users] Cards keep changing /dev/videoX devices...

[R. G. Newbury]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 15/06/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> Alan Calvert wrote:
> 
>>> Yep, blacklisting everything and ordering the module loads explicitly in
>>> rc.local works, as does using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Simply allocating
>>> video device numbers explicitly by means of module options also works.
>>>
>>> No desire for argument here, but some of the advice presented was simply false
>>> and misleading.
>> Nothing false. I'll put my hand up for being misleading about the module
>> being 'built into' the kernel.
>>
>> There are NO module options for the cx8800 which allow you to force it
>> to a specific video device, as there is for the ivtv driver. The only
>> control method is load order. So you have to know what is being loaded
> 
> What does the video_nr parameter for the cx8800 module do? modinfo cx8800 says
> 
> video_nr:video device numbers (array of int)
> 

No idea what that means. And not in the version of the module on my 
mythbox. Must be new to a later version.

Not exactly a helpful statement if that is all there is...

Geoff


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