James Sleeman wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm having a small problem getting bttv2 running, specifically I'm > having trouble with videdevX. It compiles perfectly, make install runs > without a hitch. When however I do a modprobe bttv2, which in turn > pulls in videodevX, the insmod of videodevX fails... > > V4L2: Unable to get major 81 > > I wasn't using devfs first, then I looked at the C source and saw that > there was an ifdef on devfs just there, so Have since setup devfs (was > going to anyway) and the problem persists. This is happening after a > freshboot with the original bttv driver never having been insmod'd, and > after rmmod'ing bttv so that doesn't seem to have anything to do with > it. > > I'm sure it is something simple, can anybody shed any light on it ? videodev and videodevX use the same major number. Make sure that videodev is not loaded, or compiled into the kernel (turn of video4linux in the kernel configuration). videodevX supports both v4l1 and v4l2, so you don't need videodev anyway. -justin
