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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:09:22
Message-Id: 1136178355.9565.0.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend) by Michael Sullivan
1 On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:27 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:20 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800
4 > > Bob Sanders <rmsand@××××××××××.net> wrote:
5 > >
6 > >
7 > > > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card drivers. For now,
8 > > > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with something like
9 > > > tvtime -
10 > > >
11 > > > [ N] media-tv/tvtime (0.9.12): High quality television application for use with video capture cards.
12 > > >
13 > >
14 > > Forget I mentioned tvtime. It doesn't work with ivtv. Best one can do is to set the input with
15 > > ivtvctl, record some test footage - cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg, then see if it can be
16 > > played back with mplayer.
17 > >
18 > > Bob
19 > > -
20 >
21 > The /dev/v4l directory has disappeared! Between the time I sent my last
22 > email and now I rebooted into Windows to play a network game with my
23 > wife, and now that I've booted back into Linux it's gone! I tried
24 > unmerging/remerging ivtv, but it's still gone. How do I get it back?
25
26 Nevermind. I forgot to put ivtv in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.
27 I added it and modprobed ivtv and now /dev/v4l is there.
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