Bug 24792 - /dev/video is a directory insted of device
Summary: /dev/video is a directory insted of device
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: dev
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported: 2001-01-24 01:19 UTC by Jaroslaw Sosnicki
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-01-24 01:19:41 UTC
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Description Jaroslaw Sosnicki 2001-01-24 01:19:38 UTC
I am trying to use axwtv-3.24-1 with my bttv compatible TV Card.
kudzu detected my card corectly
/etc/modules.conf
...
alias char-major-81 bttv
...
[root@ns1 /root]# /usr/bin/v4l-conf
v4l-conf: using X11 display :0
dga: version 2.0
mode: 1024x768, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=4096, base=0xfa000000
can't open /dev/video: Is a directory
[root@ns1 /root]# 

[root@ns1 /root]# rpm -q dev
dev-3.1.0-2
[root@ns1 /root]# 

[root@ns1 /root]# rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-2.4.0-0.99.9
kernel-smp-2.4.0-0.99.9
kernel-doc-2.4.0-0.99.9
kernel-source-2.4.0-0.99.9
kernelcfg-0.6-10
kernel-headers-2.4.0-0.99.9
[root@ns1 /root]#

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-24 18:04:14 UTC
Use /dev/video0 instead (xawtv -c /dev/video0).  The latest devices.txt file has
device nodes inside of the /dev/video directory, so having /dev/video be a
symlink to /dev/video0 is not possible.  This will be fixed in a future version
of the xawtv package.


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