where are the device video0 ;...

Amadeus W. M. amadeus84 at cablespeed.com
Thu Dec 29 22:03:57 UTC 2005


On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:36:43 +0100, Francois Massonneau wrote:

> On Thursday 29 December 2005 19:17, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install a webcam, and from what I read, I have to check a
>> > device named "video0", or ("video" which is a simple link to video0).
>> > But inside my /dev directory, I have no video? file(s) at all.
>> > How do I do to create one ? I run Fedora Core 4.
>> > Thank you. Francois
>> > --
>>
>> mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
> 
> No, that's not the right way imho. Each time I reboot the machine, that 
> device disapears and I have to recreate it.
> 
> I read lots of messages about that, and the latest I've found says to create 
> a  /etc/udev/rules.d/06-dvb.rules file and to add the following lines:
> 
> KERNEL="dvb*", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh %k", NAME="%c"
> SYSFS{vendor}="0x109e", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh %k", NAME="video0" 
> 
> As the card is a Pinnacle Dv500, I changed the 0x109e to 0x104c, as it seems 
> it's the vendor id of my card, but again, it's doesn't work ;-(
> 
> Francois
> 
> --

Wait a minute! What card are you talking about? Your original post was
about a webcam. And earlier you posted something about a Logitech
Quickcam. Is that not USB? 







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