[ale] Obtaining stable /dev names with changing probe order

[Jason Day]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:25:51PM -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> On this machine I have a Hauppaugh bttv based TV/radio card (model# 
> forgotten and hopefully unimportant) which works fine as /dev/video0 if I 
> don't get cute. If I add a usb webcam (a Kensington usually) after logging 
> in, the usb device becomes /dev/video1. If, however, I reboot while the 
> usb device is still plugged in, the usb device is detected first and 
> becomes /dev/video0, leaving the TV card to become /dev/video1, which 
> disrupts the userlevel software something aweful. Does anyone on this list 
> know how to cause these devices to be found at a stable /dev/video# 
> regardless of probe order? Two days of google & reading in the kernel docs 
> has declined to enlighten me as yet. 

Udev is what you want, it replaces devfs.  I don't know how easy it
would be to setup on FC2 though.

There are some tips in this thread from a month back:
http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2004-07/msg00540.html

HTH,
Jason
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