On 11/06/2014 06:53 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:47:23 -0500 > Fred Smith wrote: > >> not finding anything on that, I hit on writing a udev rule for the >> USB device to make sure it appeared as a predictable /dev/video<x>.
Did you try looking in /dev/v4l? My laptop builtin webcam leaves entries in there. The v4l directory has 2 sub-directories: by-id and by-path which contain entries for my webcam. > I did something similar to recognize my 3D printer when I plug it > in, and it was quite challenging to make all my code work > because systemd runs things in magic "cgroups" that get killed > quickly and have limited permissions. I eventually got all the > complex stuff I wanted to do working. The full story is here: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/solidoodle/solidoodle-udev.html > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
