Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-23 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: Are you using udev or devfs (or static devices) ? hehe!! Remember who you're talking to here Christoph. I'm a guitar player, not an IT guy! ;-) Well, you're using gentoo. So I can assume (at least) that you can read, you're able to use google and finally will find

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-23 Thread Lucien D.
I believe ivtv comes with a perl script that lets u change channels. its called ptune.pl and its in the utils dir of the source.. If u compile from source u'll have to install the perl modules it relies on which I believe are all in portage. Video::Frequencies, Video::ivtv, Config::IniFiles,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. OK, with the firmware properly extracted and in place

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Nick, you and Lucian seem to be on the same tack but I do not have a /dev/v4l directory: dragonfly ~ # ls -la /dev/v4* ls: /dev/v4*: No such file or directory dragonfly ~ # Video4Linux is compiled and I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Lucien D.
Make sure the card is recognized in lspci, heres the output from mine 000:00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be udev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep udev root 4698 0.0 0.0 1428 436 ?Ss 13:34 0:00 udevd mark 16051 0.0 0.0 1476 464 pts/0R+

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Lucien D.
no problem, its nice to be able to answer questions occasionally instead of just asking them. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the