/dev/video

[Edward Dunagin]

Hello again,

On 5/25/07, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:
> ketvirtadienis 24 gegužė 2007, Edward Dunagin rašė:
> > Hello Donatas,.
> >
> > On 5/22/07, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > I did this and it did not help..So I removed xawtv and then installed
> > it again. When I did that, it told me that it was setting up the video
> > in /dev/.static/dev. This is ok, but I don't know how to configure
> > xawtv so it will look there.
>
> In these kinds of situations a seemlink named the way xawtv expects and
> pointing to the right location of the video device should help. You could try
> again from a clean situation (before moving, deleting, restoring files).
>
> You could also look at the configuration file for xawtv (if it is a kde
> program, it should be somewhere in /home/YourUserName/.kde/share/config/
> directory, and called xawtvrc, else - somewhere in your home directory with a
> dot in front of it (like .xawtv) and see if there is a line you can edit in
> there.
>
> Hope some of this helps.

I ran this command with this reaults:

 edunagin at HighNet3:~$ xawtv -c /dev/.static/dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.20-15-lowlatency)
can't open /dev/.static/dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/.static/dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/.static/dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/.static/dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available


and to prove it:

edunagin at HighNet3:~$ ls -als /dev/.static/dev/video0
0 crw-rw---- 1 edunagin video 81, 0 2007-05-24 10:37 /dev/.static/dev/video0

Beats me............................ed



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