/dev/video

[Donatas G.]

antradienis 22 gegužė 2007, Edward Dunagin rašė:
> I am running ubuntustudio7.04 that I changed from Gnome to KDE.
>
> The /dev/video did not show up iin my /dev/ directory, but did show up
> in /dev/.static/dev   as video. I moved it to /dev/ and then ran
> xawtv.
>
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.20-15-generic)
> can't open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
> no video grabber device available
>
>
> I ran it both as user and sudo with the same results.
>
> Any suggestions to solve my problem?

It is the first time I hear about moving device files. Maybe that was a 
mistake? 

Could you try to create a soft link /dev/video0 that would point 
to /dev/.static/deve/video (that, of course, after rebooting your computer) 
and try to launch xawtv again?

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Donatas Glodenis
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