Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

[Bernhard Rieder <e9325898@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

NatePuri wrote:
> 
> When I open xawtv from an xterm I get this error
> 
> can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory...
>                       no video grabber device available.
> 
> When I did a ./MAKEDEV from /dev directory the proggy said
> ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "video".
> 
> Do I have make the device 'video'? Or do I have to change some setting
> in xawtv?

ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

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