[Kwintv] Re: BT878 with Mandrake 9.1

[George Staikos]

On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:21, Neil Macvicar wrote:
> >   FYI kv4lsetup is not used for anything presently.  I guess it can be
> > used for a quick test of the device, but that's about all it's useful for
> > until the overlay code is repaired and completed.
>
> It's also devfs-unaware :(
> I had a better idea for devfs divining, that is more portable. Since
> systems only have one /dev mounted at any time at boot, it's best to check
> mtab and take the first matching entry for devfs, and check (struct
> mntent).mnt_type to see if we are using devfs. Then we could do something
> like
>
> const char *choose_dev(char *vanilla_dev, char *devfs_dev);
>
> What do you think ?

  I'll have to take your word for it.  I have been devfs free for a long time 
now, and I don't remember much about it.  If it works for you, then I'm sure 
it works for me too.

-- 
George Staikos
 ...  Yes, my KDE talk at Real World Linux was cancelled on me.