Problem uploading video

[christoph at linuxsoup.com (christoph at linuxsoup.com)]

You need to copy your new device nodes to /etc/udev (example follows):
Now on reboot, it'll recreate them.

    cp -rp /dev/video1394 /etc/udev/devices/

> I followed the directions to the letter, the power of cut and pasting,
> but the problem remained.  One odd observation: when I logged back
> in, the device raw1394 was gone.  I would have thought thess commands
> run as root:
> 
> > mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
> > chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
> > ls -l /dev/raw1394
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     171,   0 Mar 24 06:54 /dev/raw1394
> 
> would make a "permanent" device.  I just rebooted again, and it is
> definitely not there:
> 
> > ls -l /dev/raw1394
> ls: /dev/raw1394: No such file or directory
> 
> Do I need to write a script to create the device every time?