Tim Cluff wrote:
Further research has revealed to me that I do not have a /dev/video0,
or any else of the sort, and I get the impression that I'm supposed to
have them. I don't know if this is related to my firmware problem, but
I assume it is. I can't figure out how to fix this; I tried the
'mknod' command listed in one of the wiki articles, but /dev/video0
went away after a reboot and it still doesn't work.
Thanks for the help so far.
I don't really know what your doing so I'll just tell you what I do.
go to the driver and run a 'make && make install'. Then because its
debian and they seem to have a problem with their source pointing to the
right thing, I'd maybe double check that everything is there and just
cp *.ko /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-686/kernel/drivers/media/video/
then back up to ../utils and make && make install.
depmod -ae
Get the firmware as you did and stick it in /lib/modules. Make sure you
link the encoder up if you just grabbed it from the driver directory
ln -s /lib/modules/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin
But you probably don't want that encoder firmware... get the normal
version from someplace. (I happen to have it in a spot you can use)
cd /lib/modules
wget http://dustsmoke.com/download/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
then make a file like /etc/modutils/ivtv and add this to it
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
run
update-modules
reboot
After that a reboot should catch it and everything should work.
cat /dev/video0 >> ~/test.mpg
-Mike
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