Hello ,
I am working with RH7.3;
I had perofrmed cd to /dev and
I had deleted the contentes of /dev/video and /dev/video itself .
Than I had tried xawtv , and it did succeedd to grab and display video
picture.
When I perform (from /dev) ./MAKEDEV video, 4 non regular files are created
in /dev/video:
(This files are: em8300, em8300_ma,em8300_mv,em8300_sp ).
This were the files that I deleted.
My qusetion is : for what this files are needed If i can use xawtv
without them ? What's there purpose ?
and another question:
I saw in many places on the net that you should do :
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video to use a video driver.
This of course creates a soft link under /dev/video (to /dev/video0).
But again ,I did run xawtv after deleteing the contents /dev/video ;
So again - for what is it soft link needed ?
regards
sting
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