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

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

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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