On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:27 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:20 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800
> > Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card 
> > > drivers.  For now,
> > > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running 
> > > with something like
> > > tvtime -
> > > 
> > > [ N] media-tv/tvtime (0.9.12):  High quality television application for 
> > > use with video capture cards.
> > > 
> > 
> > Forget I mentioned tvtime.  It doesn't work with ivtv.  Best one can do is 
> > to set the input with 
> > ivtvctl, record some test footage - cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg, then 
> > see if it can be
> > played back with mplayer.
> > 
> > Bob
> > -  
> 
> The /dev/v4l directory has disappeared!  Between the time I sent my last
> email and now I rebooted into Windows to play a network game with my
> wife, and now that I've booted back into Linux it's gone!  I tried
> unmerging/remerging ivtv, but it's still gone.  How do I get it back?

Nevermind.  I forgot to put ivtv in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.
I added it and modprobed ivtv and now /dev/v4l is there.

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