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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] TV Card and Web camera confusion</H1>
+ <B>Marc Par&#233;</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] TV Card and Web camera confusion">marc at marcpare.com
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+ <I>Fri Oct 14 10:53:32 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>Le 2011-10-13 14:23, Renaud MICHEL a &#233;crit :
+&gt;<i> On jeudi 13 octobre 2011 at 20:07, Marc Par&#233; wrote :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I have a TV card (PCI) and a USB webcam. If I restart my Mageia, the TV
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> card no longer works. I then have to go into TVtime.xml (I use TV time
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to view my TV) and then modify this line that I have included in the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> file:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &lt;option name=&quot;V4LDevice&quot; value=&quot;/dev/video0&quot;/&gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> or
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &lt;option name=&quot;V4LDevice&quot; value=&quot;/dev/video1&quot;/&gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Is there anyway to prevent the video call from changing at reboots?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I just bought a webcam for my 78 year old mother with the same TV card
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and I wouldn't want her to go through the same procedure each time she
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> re-boots her Mageia.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> You can probably make the name permanent with udev rules.
+</I>&gt;<i> See in
+</I>&gt;<i> /etc/udev/rules.d
+</I>&gt;<i> you should have permanent-cd and permanent-net rules files which you can
+</I>&gt;<i> look for examples. Add a new .rules file with your own rules.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> For an USB device it may look like (on an single line)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> SUBSYSTEM==&quot;usb&quot;, ATTR{idVendor}==&quot;0000&quot;, ATTR{idProduct}==&quot;0000&quot;,
+</I>&gt;<i> NAME=&quot;video1&quot;
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I am not sure how it will be for a PCI card, I am not an udev expert, see
+</I>&gt;<i> man udev for more informations.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+Merci Renaud, but,
+
+I would think that having a webcam and TV card should not be made this
+difficult for a normal user to configure. I am hoping that Mageia could
+somehow figure these things out on its own or at least have a help file
+somewhere to walk a user through this.
+
+Marc
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