Re: saa7134 surveillance

Håkon Alstadheim <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.video4linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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Håkon Alstadheim
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