[mythtv-users] Fixed numbers for video devices

Jos Hoekstra joshoekstra at gmx.net
Fri Oct 26 21:10:38 UTC 2007


I've been using myth for quite a while now and I use it a lot with my 
roommates. Recently I've stumbled on a problem which is partly a mythtv 

I'm using a PVR500 and 350 for recording TV, which gives me 3 video devices:

Lately I got a webcam which I want to use for Zoneminder(looking forward 
to the ZM-plugin ;)), which works fine using the gspcav-driver.
This one uses:

All this works under FC6, until I reboot then the webcam gets
/dev/video0 and the PVR's shift a number up.

This would be ok if the cam is always connected, but it isn't so the 
nummbers will keep switching around and 1 channel less in mythtv.

Is there a way to force the webcam to be loaded last after the PVR's are 
loaded?(because it seems to be loaded before the PVR's)
Or, alternatively, is there a way to force the webcam to load at a fixed 
Can this be done by a udev-rule?

Modprobe.conf relevant sections:

### IVTV ###
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_first_minor=0
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_first_minor=1
alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_first_minor=2

### GSPCAV ###
alias char-major-81-3 gspca

Thanks in advance,

Jos Hoekstra

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