i just upgraded to redhat 7.1 and am now getting the message
 "video device (/dev/video) open failed"
with the simpleTest app...

WinTV card / bttv driver / Xawtv work just fine,
i tried changing the channel # in the simpletest.c to 0,1 and 2
other settings seem to be set correctly (ie NTSC)

any ideas?
john

found the problem!
in config.h there is a
DEFAULT_VIDEO_DEVICE = "/dev/video"
which under my system (2.4 kernel/redhat7.1) is /dev/video/video0

(anyone know if this is standard or an abberation) 

john

> 
> 
> i just upgraded to redhat 7.1 and am now getting the message
>  "video device (/dev/video) open failed"
> with the simpleTest app...
> 
> WinTV card / bttv driver / Xawtv work just fine,
> i tried changing the channel # in the simpletest.c to 0,1 and 2
> other settings seem to be set correctly (ie NTSC)
> 
> any ideas?
> john
> 
> 
> 
> 

From: Robert Hinn <exodus@u ...............>

Hi.

As far as I know, it's the new standard that /dev/video is a
directory instead of a device, so the video-device would now be
called /dev/video/video0. I had the same problem on my system, too.

  Robert.

John Martirano schrieb:
>
> found the problem!
> in config.h there is a
> DEFAULT_VIDEO_DEVICE = "/dev/video"
> which under my system (2.4 kernel/redhat7.1) is /dev/video/video0
>
> (anyone know if this is standard or an abberation)
>
> john
>
> >
> >
> > i just upgraded to redhat 7.1 and am now getting the message
> >  "video device (/dev/video) open failed"
> > with the simpleTest app...
> >
> > WinTV card / bttv driver / Xawtv work just fine,
> > i tried changing the channel # in the simpletest.c to 0,1 and 2
> > other settings seem to be set correctly (ie NTSC)
> >
> > any ideas?
> > john
> >
> >
> >
> >