[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Bug#496801: ivtv-utils: Devices not numbered from 1

[David Liontooth]

Package: ivtv-utils
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: minor


/usr/share/doc/ivtv-utils/NEWS.Debian.gz has the entry,

ivtv (0.6.0-1)

  * The IVTV devices have been renumbered starting with 1 instead of
    zero. i.e. "Tuner 0" has become "Tuner 1" etc.

 -- Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>  Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:07:08 +0000

This isn't true anymore; devices are numbered from 0. 

I would like to renumber my devices, as I'm running into a conflict with the default numbering scheme:

ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv2: Registered device video2 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv2: Registered device video34 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv2: Registered device video26 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv3: Registered device video3 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv3: Registered device video35 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv3: Registered device video27 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv4: Registered device video4 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv4: Registered device video36 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv4: Registered device video28 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv5: Registered device video5 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv5: Registered device video37 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv5: Registered device video29 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv6: Registered device video6 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv6: Registered device video38 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv6: Registered device video30 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv7: Registered device video7 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv7: Registered device video39 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv7: Registered device video31 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv8: Registered device video8 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv8: Registered device video40 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv8: Registered device video9 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv9: Registered device video10 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv9: Registered device video41 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv9: Registered device video11 for encoder PCM (320 kB)

ivtv8 uses video9 for PCM, since video32 is already used by ivtv0 for YUV.
ivtv9 thus gets video10 for MPG, yet vbi9. BTW they work fine.

I don't see any documentation for renumbering all the devices; since you
appear to know how to do it, could you point to the documentation or document it?

Cheers,
Dave



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ivtv-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libconfig-inifiles-perl       2.39-5     Read .ini-style configuration file
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.2-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvideo-ivtv-perl            0.13-6+b1  Perl extension for using V4l2 in t
ii  perl                          5.10.0-10  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages ivtv-utils recommends:
ii  devscripts                2.10.35        scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                  1.8            Gives a fake root environment
ii  perl-tk                   1:804.028-1+b1 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii  unzip                     5.52-10        De-archiver for .zip files

-- no debconf information