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I have no /dev/v4l directory (and thus no devices in it)

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Subject: I have no /dev/v4l directory (and thus no devices in it)
From: "Jason Bodnar" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:24:42 -0400
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I'm trying to use an Hauppauge WinTV USB Video Capture device. The kernel
module for it is usbvision (found here
http://www.emuit.com/drivers/usbvision-0.3.3-test2/ with instructions here
http://www.emuit.com/drivers/usbvision-0.3.3-test2/usbvision.txt). 

I've followed the instructions without a problem. The modules build and load
just fine. But when I try to run xawtv I get the following:

$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.75, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18)
can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available

which makes sense because I have no /dev/v4l directory:

$ ls -la /dev/v4l
ls: /dev/v4l: No such file or directory

So, which module is supposed to make sure there's a /dev/v4l directory with an
appropriate device? Is it the usbvision module? If so, I'm guessing it's not
devfsd aware because I don't see a devfsregister function call.

Thank you,

Jason

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