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Bug 64093 - [udev] missing symlink for vbi
Summary: [udev] missing symlink for vbi
Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-09-14 23:44 UTC by Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED)
Modified: 2005-06-03 23:17 UTC (History)
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Description Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2004-09-14 23:44:02 UTC
I had problems accessing the videotext from kdetv after switching to udev. I figured out that kdetv was looking for /dev/vbi0, which did not exist. The symlinks for /dev/video0 and /dev/radio worked fine, so I took a look at the ruleset. After replacing:
KERNEL="vbi[0-9]*",   NAME="v4l/vbi%n"
with
KERNEL="vbi[0-9]*",   NAME="v4l/vbi%n", SYMLINK="vbi%n"
the videotext worked fine again. I don't have enough knowledge of udev, v4l and the gentoo udev ruleset to say if this should be added to the default ruleset, so I leave it up to the developers.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-05 13:57:59 UTC
Can't you just tell kdetv to point to the proper device (in the v4l subdirectory)
instead?
Comment 2 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2005-06-03 23:17:06 UTC
kdetv relies on /dev/v4l/vbi0 in later versions. so that works fine.... next to
that a symlink is now created by default (iirc).