[gst-devel] Ran gst-register, lost TV tuner

[Carmine F. Greco]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 05:50, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:27, Carmine F Greco wrote:
> > I run FC2 and have an ATI All In Wonder Radeon 32 that was working
> > with xawtv for TV tuning.  I ran gst-register to get SoundJuicer and
> > RhythmBox to use new plugins and now xawtv complains that there's no
> > such device "/dev/video0." A listing of /dev/video* shows
> > 
> > crw-------  1 cgreco root 81, 0 Feb 23 16:02 /dev/video0
> > crw-------  1 cgreco root 81, 1 Feb 23 16:02 /dev/video1
> > crw-------  1 cgreco root 81, 2 Feb 23 16:02 /dev/video2
> > crw-------  1 cgreco root 81, 3 Feb 23 16:02 /dev/video3
> >  
> > /dev/video:
> > total 0
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? em8300
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? em8300_ma
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? em8300_mv
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? em8300_sp
> >  
> > /dev/video1394:
> > total 0
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? 0
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? 1
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? 2
> > ?---------  ? ? ? ?           ? 3
> > Any ideas on what changed by running gst-register or how to fix this? 
> > TIA.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> gst-register by itself doesn't do anything to the device at all.  It
> doesn't even try to open it.  So unless there's something funky in your
> setup, I'd think it's very unlikely that gst-register caused this
> problem.
> 
> Getting the error that the device is not found is unrelated to having
> the device file in /dev.
> 
> Most systems still have all /dev files created explicitly, even if you
> don't have the device.  Make sure that your videodev and bttv modules
> are loaded before starting xawtv or tvtime.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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> 
> 

I apologize.  Using up2date to get the latest gstreamer plugins must
have also updated the xorg-x11 package.  And since I have a custom built
video driver, I needed to recompile the driver for the new version of X.

Carmine