On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Da Rock < freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was > determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and > ask for some help :) > > I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a FreeBSD > server (8.2): 1 cx88, 2 DiVico dual tuners (that totals 4 amongst just the > DiVico's). I'm using webcamd to use these (thank God I can get away from > Linux!), and they work fine except I have to run ln -s to link them to the > right places after every reboot (Only the Divico's use webcamd). So they > should look like this: > > $ls /dev/dvb/ > adapter0 adapter1 adapter2 adapter3 > > instead: > > ls /dev/dvb/ > adapter0 adapter16 adapter24 adapter8 > > This is a real problem because 1. MPlayer only accepts 0-4, and 2. > GStreamer (including xine) only accept 1-16. > > I tried working out how to resolve the issue any sane way; and then I > resorted to some quick hacks. I tried uding devfs.rules for links before I > found out it can't do that at all. devfs.conf is no good, as it sets them > up to begin with. And running some commands in rc.local didn't work: `ln -s > /dev/dvb/adapter8 /dev/dvb/adapter1` and so forth. > > I googled and googled and there seem to be no real fix as webcamd won't > work without hal and relies on it for the numbering (but borks it > continuously). I've tried updates and so forth, but all to no avail. I'm > not too worried about a permanent fix because hal's death bells have > tolled, but I do need to fix this as it is really getting annoying now - > the server is on continuously but can go down from time to time and catches > the unwary :) (like when a scheduled recording which requires say adapter1 > finds it no longer there) > > I'm using webcamd-3.2.0.2, which I recently updated. > > Cheers > ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscr...@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org>" > Hi, maybe cron job that runs once a minute and checks/fixes? maybe overkill but probably not noticeable to system performance,... . Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
