On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:48:05PM +1100, Ian Tester uttered:

> Are you just confused about the device names?
> /dev/radio0 is your first radio device. The Video4Linux devices are allocated as
> each driver is loaded. When you load the driver for your radio card, it will
> probably take /dev/radio0, unless you have others already loaded :)

Ahhhh...  I thought each device _driver_ had a minor number uniquely
identifying the type of device.  However it seems I'm mistaken and in
fact the minor numbers are allocated for each device of that type...
Cool that makes sense now.

> so just do 
> mknod /dev/radio0 c 81 64
> 
> Does this help at all?

Well it does help in that I've got a /dev/radio that no longer
complains when I run gradio or similar.  However it still doesn't work
-- no sound coming out of the card. :(

Thanks for the help.

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