On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:32:42PM +1000, Da Rock 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
The manpage seems to indicate that HAL is an option for webcamd(8):
-H Register device by the HAL daemon.
If you still have problems you might want to post on multimedia@ as
the author of webcamd hangs out there (hselasky@).
Regards,
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Frank
Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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