On 02/19/12 13:16, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 20:42:50 2012
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +1000
From: Da Rock<freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
To: FreeBSD Questions<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: webcamd and device numbering
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
ask for some help :)
I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a
FreeBSD server (8.2): 1 cx88, 2 DiVico dual tuners (that totals 4
amongst just the DiVico's). I'm using webcamd to use these (thank God I
can get away from Linux!), and they work fine except I have to run ln -s
to link them to the right places after every reboot (Only the Divico's
use webcamd). So they should look like this:
$ls /dev/dvb/
adapter0 adapter1 adapter2 adapter3
instead:
ls /dev/dvb/
adapter0 adapter16 adapter24 adapter8
At least a couple of ways to approach this.
1) (a bad idea, but simple) wrap 'webcamd' in a script that makes the
symlinks before invoking the actual executable.
I don't think that will work because webcamd does the actually device
attach itself. Putting in the symlinks first _cant_ happen because there
is nothing to link to.
2) look at devd.conf(5) and add stuff there to create the links for {1,2,3}
Again, same problem. webcamd does the work there to attach the devices -
but it uses hal to notify and obtain the numbering. I haven't found a
way to turn this off as yet. Originally I don't think it used hal at
all, somewhere along the line they decided to make inextricable.
I may be stuck with the cron job :/ I wonder if I can get it to just
happen at boot... my spidey senses are tingling. I'll have to remember
where I saw that.
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