From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Check Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:09:08 +0000 Subject: Video devices Message-Id: <44B2FA34.8090405@openstreet.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi: I have a webcam and a pvr350 capture card (modules pwc and ivtv resp) attached to my machine, running 2.6.16 kernel and udev. The classic problem is that these modules get assigned to /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 in seemingly arbitrary ways. I've tried forcing module loading at boot time but still can't seem to get one to load first consistently. So, I turned to writing udev rules and followed the "writing udev rules" document. My goal would be to have udev just symlink /dev/webcam0 to /dev/videoM and /dev/pvr0 to /dev/videoN, where M and N are 0 and 1, assignmed however the system so chooses. I've tried writing udev rules to symlink, but they didn't work. Upon further investigation I don't actually see any rules to create the video devices in the /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory. And yet, they are created. Also, I see they are mentioned in /etc/udev/devfs.rules, but there is no symlink to this file in the rules.d/ directory. So, how do the video devices get created here? Is there some devfs left-over? Perhaps if I knew where the /dev/video?'s are being created I'd be able to figure out how to symlink to them?! I'm running debian unstable, fully updated. Thanks, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel