From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZu4L-0002vo-Mt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:35:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74A56E0280; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B7EE0280 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4833029AD42 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:35:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:35:00 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: cNo4WmVdmrIG3WASl9CW5NCm4XA4PnB6B/3ppGVLeUU8 1234992899 Received: from [10.11.12.169] (nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com [66.187.233.202]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E26C51B05E for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:34:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are the video files there, or aren't they? From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1234992631.15767.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com> References: <1234992631.15767.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:34:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1234992864.6892.2.camel@centar.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 664688f4-3d05-46f0-a93c-a16d103e673c X-Archives-Hash: 7a182607ddd4d94fd8bdf1c5a6b8d07e On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:30 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I've had a lot of problems with X today. I finally got X back up, but > when I went to check MythTV, it didn't work. I started tracking down > the problem. I went into mythtv-setup and it said that it couldn't find > any video inputs, so I examined /dev/v4l/video0. What I found was > really confusing: > > camille ~ # ls -l /dev/v4l > total 0 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 Feb 18 09:20 radio0 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 Feb 18 09:20 vbi0 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Feb 18 09:20 video0 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 Feb 18 09:20 video24 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 Feb 18 09:20 video32 > camille ~ # cat /dev/v4l/video0 > cat: /dev/v4l/video0: No such device or address > > > Is it there, or isn't it? I don't know if it matters, but when I was > trying to fix the X problem, I built and booted with a new kernel: This is most likely completely unrelated to your issues with X. This is a problem with your tuner card or its drivers. If you compiled a new kernel did you remember to re-compile any out-of-tree kernel modules? Are you sure the tuner drivers have the correct (versions of) firmware to load? Did you check dmesg? -a