Nick wrote:
> On 29/08/06, Valerio Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello again to everyone!
>>
>> I have quite a minor problem compared to the ones I had in the past, but
>> it is still quite annoying. Maybe someone can help me. This is the
>> problem. I have the ivtv module loaded during boot and I also have gspca
>> module (for webcams) loaded during boot. What happens is that sometimes
>> one module is loaded before the other and so, for example, ivtv takes
>> the /dev/video0 device and the webcam takes /dev/video1, but sometimes
>> the opposite happens and the devices are switched. This is annoying when
>> using tv software (like mythtv) because I have to change the device in
>> the configuration of the program manually, when this happens.
>>
>> Is there a way to make sure that one of the drivers is loaded always
>> first? Thank you in advance for your help!
>>
>
> A particularly clean way to get around this problem is to use 2 udev
> rules, one for the PVR card and one for the webcam, to create /dev/pvr
> and /dev/webcam device nodes. Using this method means that module
> loading order is irrelevant.
>
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>
> You could also modprobe the modules manually via rc.local (with
> suitably long sleep) to have control over their loading order.
>
> Nick
>
>
I read through the document. But what should be the rule tied to, the
module (i.e. KERNEL=="ivtv", SUBSYSTEM=="module", NAME=="pvr") or the
device itself? Can you please give me some guidelines?
Thank you for your help!
Valerio
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