Hello , I am working with RH7.3; I had perofrmed cd to /dev and I had deleted the contentes of /dev/video and /dev/video itself .
Than I had tried xawtv , and it did succeedd to grab and display video picture.
When I perform (from /dev) ./MAKEDEV video, 4 non regular files are created in /dev/video:
(This files are: em8300, em8300_ma,em8300_mv,em8300_sp ).
This were the files that I deleted.
My qusetion is : for what this files are needed If i can use xawtv without them ? What's there purpose ?
and another question: I saw in many places on the net that you should do : ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video to use a video driver. This of course creates a soft link under /dev/video (to /dev/video0). But again ,I did run xawtv after deleteing the contents /dev/video ;
So again - for what is it soft link needed ?
regards sting
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