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

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jason Day wrote:

> 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
> 

>From other posts & the reference here, it looks like udev is probably the 
way to go. I'll drop a line in a day or so as to how the whole mess is 
going.

Thanks for the push in a good direction 

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