[mythtv-users] dtv, ivtv swapping /dev/video0,1 across reboots

Douglas Peale Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
Wed Jun 23 01:43:39 UTC 2010


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On 06/22/2010 06:12 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Harry Coin <hcoin at quietfountain.com> wrote:
>> I have a debian lenny backend, it has an ivtv card and a dvico dtv card.
>> Sometimes when it boots the ivtv is video0, and the dtv is video1, sometimes
>> the dtv is /dev/video0 and the ivtv hauppauge is video1.   I think it has
>> something to do with how fast firmware loads but I really can't tell.
>>
>> How does a person always cause each particular pci card to get the same
>> /dev/video# is systems with two tuner cards that are not the same mythtv
>> driver class no matter what?
>>
> 
> You can fix that with a udev rule.
> 
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto#Howto_use_udev_rules.21
> 
> John
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Those instructions require running an application called "udevinfo" which does not exist on Ubuntu, and there does not appear to
be a way to install it. Are there any more recent instructions?
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