Re: Activating videodev module

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:12:00 +0000


>That's all well and good, but where do I find documentation on how to get
>the videodev module to accept c-qcam as it's video capture driver? And
>how do I tell it to use a given minor number with that mapping?

If you load c-qcam and it finds a device, it will automatically register
itself with the videodev module. There's no such thing as "the" video capture
driver; you can have several.

The minor number you get, and hence which node in /dev you end up using,
depends on what other hardware is present.

p.

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