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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list