On Thursday 18 January 2007 22:19, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 21:00, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > > It's necessary to run 'udevtrigger' to activate them.
> > >
> > > Next question, then. Should I put that command into my .bash_profile?
> >
> > Anne,
> >
> > could you post the udev rules you created?
> >
> > These are the rules I use:
> >
> > [naja:/etc/udev/rules.d] more 83-video.rules
> > # Persistent symlinks for webcam and tuner
> > KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="4036", SYSFS{idVendor}=="041e", \
> > SYMLINK+="webcam"
> > KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{device}=="0x036e", SYSFS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
> > SYMLINK+="tvtuner"
> >
> > and these are the corresponding links:
> >
> > [naja:/etc/udev/rules.d] ls -al /dev/tvtuner
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 16 07:48 /dev/tvtuner -> video0
> > [naja:/etc/udev/rules.d] ls -al /dev/webcam
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 16 07:48 /dev/webcam -> video1
>
> # Persistent symlinks for webcam and DC10+
> KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{model}=="Pixart PAC207-BCA", SYMLINK+="webcam"
> KERNEL=="video*", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", SYSFS{name}=="DC10plus_0_"
> , SYMLINK+="DC10plus"
>
> I copied and pasted the entries from udevinfo, to make sure that I got them
> exactly right.
>
> Something has gone wrong again, though. I made a test recording before I
> rebooted, but now I can't, and /dev/DC10plus seems to be wrongly directed.
>
> [anne@david ~]$ ls -al /dev/webcam
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 18 19:45 /dev/webcam -> video0
> [anne@david ~]$ ls -al /dev/DC10plus
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 18 19:47 /dev/DC10plus -> hda1
>
> I don't understand why it should work once, then not again.
>
This morning /dev/DC10plus was pointing to hdd - a DVD drive. After running
udevtrigger manually it pointed to ram3. Running it again made it point to
ram14. This seems very random. I'll look at udevinfo again and see whether
I can add further identifying lines. I'll report back whether that makes any
difference.
Anne
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