Hi,

I was wondering how to install many video cards on a machine. I have mandrake 9.1 and the kernel version is 2.4.21. I have Provideo cards with 4 chips and 4 inputs.

When i put one in the machine and boot the machine, i get 4 devices created as /dev/video0 to /dev/video3. When i put in a second card, it doesn't create other devices that should be /dev/video4 to /dev/video7.

Do I have to create those manually before i insert more than one card? If so, what are the commands to do it? Isn't it wit mknod or something? Do I have to specify some special parameters or something?

Thank you very much.

It is mknod, from poking about it should be:

mknod /dev/video4 c 81 4
mknod /dev/video5 c 81 5
etc...

Its a character device of type major 81 and the minors in order.

Cheers,

Finegan