ADDING /DEV/VIDEO

Maurice Murphy m1625 at rogers.com
Fri May 4 20:00:35 UTC 2007


Sorry, the sentence below should have read, '*how can I stop the random 
assignment of my video hardware to these three /dev/video locations'*.  
*A senior moment, I think!*

Maurice Murphy wrote:
> Because of conflicts with my web cam, I would like to add the following: 
> /dev/video1 and /dev/video2.  All I have at the moment is /dev/video0. 
> If I assigned /dev/video1 and 2 to my two TV Adapters respectively, I 
> could then leave /dev/video0 free for my Logitech Quickcam Messenger. 
>
> To do this,  I have two problems: how do I create video1 and video2 with 
> the appropriate drivers so that they can be used by my tv adapters? and, 
> _how can I stop the random assignment of my video hardware to these three 
> pieces of hardware_.  e,g There is no guarantee that the web cam will 
> always be assigned to /dev/video0.
>
> All and any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks, 
> Maurice.
>   

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