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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] TV Card and Web camera confusion</H1>
<B>Marc Paré</B>
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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 écrit :
><i> On jeudi 13 octobre 2011 at 20:07, Marc Paré wrote :
</I>>><i> I have a TV card (PCI) and a USB webcam. If I restart my Mageia, the TV
</I>>><i> card no longer works. I then have to go into TVtime.xml (I use TV time
</I>>><i> to view my TV) and then modify this line that I have included in the
</I>>><i> file:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <option name="V4LDevice" value="/dev/video0"/>
</I>>><i> or
</I>>><i> <option name="V4LDevice" value="/dev/video1"/>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Is there anyway to prevent the video call from changing at reboots?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I just bought a webcam for my 78 year old mother with the same TV card
</I>>><i> and I wouldn't want her to go through the same procedure each time she
</I>>><i> re-boots her Mageia.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> You can probably make the name permanent with udev rules.
</I>><i> See in
</I>><i> /etc/udev/rules.d
</I>><i> you should have permanent-cd and permanent-net rules files which you can
</I>><i> look for examples. Add a new .rules file with your own rules.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> For an USB device it may look like (on an single line)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0000", ATTR{idProduct}=="0000",
</I>><i> NAME="video1"
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I am not sure how it will be for a PCI card, I am not an udev expert, see
</I>><i> man udev for more informations.
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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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