[Mageia-discuss] TV Card and Web camera confusion

Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 20:23:27 CEST 2011


On jeudi 13 octobre 2011 at 20:07, Marc Paré wrote :
> I have a TV card (PCI) and a USB webcam. If I restart my Mageia, the TV 
> card no longer works. I then have to go into TVtime.xml (I use TV time 
> to view my TV) and then modify this line that I have included in the
> file:
> 
>    <option name="V4LDevice" value="/dev/video0"/>
> or
>    <option name="V4LDevice" value="/dev/video1"/>
> 
> Is there anyway to prevent the video call from changing at reboots?
> 
> I just bought a webcam for my 78 year old mother with the same TV card 
> and I wouldn't want her to go through the same procedure each time she 
> re-boots her Mageia.

You can probably make the name permanent with udev rules.
See in
/etc/udev/rules.d
you should have permanent-cd and permanent-net rules files which you can 
look for examples. Add a new .rules file with your own rules.

For an USB device it may look like (on an single line)

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0000", ATTR{idProduct}=="0000", 
NAME="video1"

I am not sure how it will be for a PCI card, I am not an udev expert, see 
man udev for more informations.

-- 
Renaud Michel


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