Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:20 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800
> Bob Sanders <rmsand@concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card drivers.  For now,
> > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with something like
> > tvtime -
> > 
> > [ N] media-tv/tvtime (0.9.12):  High quality television application for use with video capture cards.
> > 
> 
> Forget I mentioned tvtime.  It doesn't work with ivtv.  Best one can do is to set the input with 
> ivtvctl, record some test footage - cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg, then see if it can be
> played back with mplayer.
> 
> Bob
> -  

The /dev/v4l directory has disappeared!  Between the time I sent my last
email and now I rebooted into Windows to play a network game with my
wife, and now that I've booted back into Linux it's gone!  I tried
unmerging/remerging ivtv, but it's still gone.  How do I get it back?

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