Hi, Am Dienstag, den 02.06.2009, 00:53 +0200 schrieb S P: > I have 2.6.28 version kernel(The default with ubuntu jaunty). But I > had checked the documentation of 2.6.29 and saw that the v4l framework > redesinged a bit...so I have to compile the 2.6.29 kernel to see all > the cameras? Nice...but I will try. > Anyway: Thanks for the reply! > > Regards, Peter Sarkozi that won't help. We had always support for at least eight saa713x chips. Do you have four such chips on the board or eight? Cheers, Hermann > 2009/6/1 Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > S P wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> I have a surveillance card with saa7134 chips. It should be able to > >> see 8 cameras at a time, but there is only 4 video devices in /dev of > >> this card. > >> These devices are working fine, each device's channel 0(there isn't > >> any other channel of these devices) is an input for a camera. > >> So, how could I manage it to be 8 devices? > >> > >> > > > > Kernel-version ? Newer kernels allow you to set v4l subsystem to "allocate > > minor device numbers dynamically". This is supposed to allow more than 4 > > devices on a single card, according to the help-text of the 2.6.29 kernel I > > just compiled. > > > > Caveat: All this is from memory, ~24hours old. > > > > -- > > Håkon Alstadheim > > 47 35 39 38 > > > > > > > > -- -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list