I have not been getting replies to recent mail, I just noticed that I had a return address of kantoine@CPE-203-45-140-190 instead of the correct address. Kmail picked up the IP instead. Hopefully I might be better now.
I assume that the problems I am experiencing are due to my inability to get to grips with devfs as opposed to the old /dev. I have occasion to use 'alevt' the teletext prog, however it has operated but now does not, for some reason. What it is returning is:: alevt: /dev/vbi: No such file or directory alevt: cannot open /dev/vbi However there exists a device in /dev/v4l/vbi0 along with devices for video0 and video1. I also have problems with programs that are accessing the video drivers too. There also exist character devices pointing to the above in /dev, but when I try to access them they 'do not exist'. The alevt calls vbi not vbi0, so I did a link but still does not 'see' it and on a reboot the link is destroyed. video calls /dev/video and the result is the same. I have tried chmod 666 and 777 on the devices and also chown kantoine:users to no avail, of course they disappear on reboot. Mjpegtools 'lavrec' will not startup to record as it cannot find :: ++ WARN: [lavrec] Unable to set negative priority for main thread ++ WARN: [lavrec] Pthread Real-time scheduling for main thread could not be enabled ++ WARN: [lavrec] Unable to set negative priority for audio thread. ++ WARN: [lavrec] Pthread Real-time scheduling for audio thread could not be enabled. **ERROR: [lavrec] Unable to get audio - exiting .... So the audio is not found, bet video will not be found either. AFAIAC 'audio' is /dev/dsp which exists as does /dev/mixer all pointing to /dev/sound [kantoine@CPE-203-45-140-190 kantoine]$ ls -l /dev/sound total 0 crw------- 1 kantoine audio 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw------- 1 kantoine audio 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer crw------- 1 kantoine audio 14, 15 Jan 1 1970 unknown Yes there exists a /dev/unknown (what is this). Again tried what I did to vbi all again did not work. So I need some advice from someone who has been here before as to how the hell I get them 'seen'................... Is it to do with /etc/devfsd.conf ?? Me little brain I have left is now very numb and not working well at all. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
