Hi, I'm not 100% sure of this but I've been trying to set up a MythTV backend on a second system. The system was running and older kernel and devfs. I updated the kernel to 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 and included v4l support built into the kernel. I was using devfs at that time yesterday. I *thought* that after doing that I had some /dev/v4l entries but I'm not positive. Somewhere along the way I decided that since I'm here I'd convert the machine to udev. That went OK as far as I can tell, but now I notice that I don't have any /dev/v4l entries on this machine. Maybe they weren't there before. I'm no longer very sure.
In the new machine we've got the new PVR-150 card working with the development version of ivtv (Not portage - ver. 0.3.3k) and now doing the test of the card we capture video. cat /dev/video0 >test.mpg and then playing the video in mplayer everything looks good. At this point I'm not sure what creates /dev/v4l entries. I have them in my backend machine in Northern CA which uses a PVR-250 and currently ivtv-0.2.0 from their site. (not portage) dragonfly linux # ls -al /dev/v4l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 May 11 10:55 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 32660 May 20 09:15 .. crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 May 11 10:55 radio0 crw------- 1 evelyn sys 81, 224 May 11 10:55 vbi0 crw------- 1 evelyn sys 81, 32 May 11 10:55 video crw------- 1 evelyn sys 81, 0 May 11 10:55 video0 crw------- 1 evelyn sys 81, 24 May 11 10:55 video24 crw------- 1 evelyn sys 81, 32 May 11 10:55 video32 dragonfly linux # uname -r 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 dragonfly linux # But not on the new backend machine in southern CA: gandalf linux # ls -al /dev/v4l ls: /dev/v4l: No such file or directory gandalf linux # uname -r 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 gandalf linux # I've checked that both have v4l support enabled in the kernel. What am I missing on this new machine? I'm sure there must just be some other thign required to get this turned on? I don't seem to be able to configure MythTV without this. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
