Valerio Mariani wrote:
> 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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Never mind, I did it
Thank you so much
Valerio
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