Loading the BitFlow Module

To load a BitFlow Frame Grabber device driver module:

  1. Load the required videodev module from the v4l2 drivers:

    $ sudo modprobe videodev

  2. Change directory to the directory containing the appropriate bitflow.ko

    $ cd /bitflow/driver/drv

  3. Load the bitflow.ko module

    $ sudo insmod bitflow.ko

The v4l2 kernel module will assign a device file, /dev/videoN, for each BitFlow VFG installed.

The files /proc/bitflowN will display the v4l_index for “N”, the associated /dev/videoN file of each installed VFG.

To remove the BitFlow frame grabber device driver:

$ sudo rmmod bitflow