Scanner & TV Card not detected on boot

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When I reboot my computer I have to jump thru some hoops to get my TV card and scanner working again.

 

I'm running MDK 10.0, the TV card is a Hauppage BT878, and the scanner is an Acer 4300u. (Uses snapscan)

 

First the TV Card:

Every time I boot, I have to change the permissions of /dev/v4l/vbi0 and /dev/v4l/video0. I dont know what they should be, and I dont know how to get them to be the permissions I want on boot, so I just chmod 777 /dev/v4l/*

 

Then I must run 'scantv -o ~/.xawtv'.. even though ~/.xawtv exists. Maybe something gets jogged or some config gets set.. dont know.

 

Next the scanner:

The scanner worked great when I installed Mandrake 10.0, but then when I rebooted, it didnt detect it. Now, in order to get my scanner to work, I must remove, and then re-install all of the sane packages, unplug, and plug in the scanner, then it works.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Rob