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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Are the video files there, or aren't they?
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:30:46
Message-Id: 1234992631.15767.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com
1 I've had a lot of problems with X today. I finally got X back up, but
2 when I went to check MythTV, it didn't work. I started tracking down
3 the problem. I went into mythtv-setup and it said that it couldn't find
4 any video inputs, so I examined /dev/v4l/video0. What I found was
5 really confusing:
6
7 camille ~ # ls -l /dev/v4l
8 total 0
9 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 Feb 18 09:20 radio0
10 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 Feb 18 09:20 vbi0
11 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Feb 18 09:20 video0
12 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 Feb 18 09:20 video24
13 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 Feb 18 09:20 video32
14 camille ~ # cat /dev/v4l/video0
15 cat: /dev/v4l/video0: No such device or address
16
17
18 Is it there, or isn't it? I don't know if it matters, but when I was
19 trying to fix the X problem, I built and booted with a new kernel:
20
21 camille ~ # uname -a
22 Linux camille 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Wed Feb 18 14:20:01 CST 2009 i686
23 GNU/Linux
24
25
26 Please help!

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Are the video files there, or aren't they? Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Are the video files there, or aren't they? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>