On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 17:33 -0500, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Claude Petrini wrote: > > > I tryed "mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0" but when I reboot the device video0 > > is missing again. > > > This is from memory so the details may not be 100%, but try the following. > Figure out what module needs to be loaded for your video card. > If you can figure that out, then if it were 'mymodule' try > modprobe mymodule > If that makes /dev/video0 appear then add a line to /etc/modprobe.conf > alias /dev/video0 mymodule > which should make it load when you try to access that device, so it will > still work after rebooting. My /etc/modprobe.conf has alias char-major-81 bttv and udev happily creates the device for me. Phil