From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EtHwf-0002uU-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:09:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0257Fif011670; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 05:07:15 GMT Received: from bullet.espersunited.com (24-117-226-93.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.226.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k02555aK002976 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 05:05:06 GMT Received: from camille.espersunited.com (camille.espersunited.com [192.168.1.3]) by bullet.espersunited.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k02553Vu010316 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:05:04 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend) From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1136172456.9591.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> References: <1135878795.9187.17.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1135904790.9334.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1135980482.11114.12.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20051230193033.4c9f126c@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136011206.11068.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20051231091827.4db53412@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136154629.9572.4.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1136155627.3028.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1136156252.3686.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20060101174719.0a21e8de@chi.speakeasy.net> <20060101192012.7dce0470@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136172456.9591.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:05:55 -0600 Message-Id: <1136178355.9565.0.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4fb66d64-fe83-4437-8745-91e9c3b95903 X-Archives-Hash: 8a8512a229052e4fc623d2ceb4ce78de On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:27 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:20 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800 > > Bob Sanders 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? Nevermind. I forgot to put ivtv in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. I added it and modprobed ivtv and now /dev/v4l is there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list