On 5/24/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/2005 6:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > All I hope for now is that they don't suddenly disappear!
And they didn't. The machine works fine now. I still, however, have absolutely no idea how and why v4l devices get created. I guess it's udev magic. <SNIP> > I'm very new to both Linux and Gentoo and thus my input may be way off > base. However I experienced a similar problem as you after following > the udev guide on the Gentoo site. For whatever reason, after > converting to udev only, ivtv no longer started by itself on boot up and > thus, I did not have the /dev/video devices. I confirmed that ivtv was > not loaded by using lsmod. After starting ivtv by hand, the /dev/video > devices were created. Maybe this is what's happening to you? > No, in my case ivtv was started but with the old tarball (I guess) the v4l devices didn't get created. Anyway, things are working pretty well now. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
