Peter Farrow writes: > Dear All, > > I have 5 BT878 based fram grabbers in one server running RedHat 9. I > have V4l installed, and can access successfully /dev/video0 -> /dev/video3 > > I used > > mknod -m600 /dev/video4 c 81 4 > > To make character device for the fifth frame grabber, when the card was > added to the system Kudzu spotted it ok, and /proc/pci lists all five > cards no problem. > > However the system behaves as is there is no hardware for /dev/video4, > xawtv -c /dev/video4 fails (with no hardware) as does my own > framegrabber written in C using V4l calls. > > Does anyone know how I can get round this problem? > Increase the value of BTTV_MAX (defined in bttvp.h) and recompile the driver. Mark Charter.
