[NTLUG:Discuss] xawtv w/ ATI all-in-wonder pcTV card

[Jerry Haltom]

www.tvtime.org

They have some slight instructions about setting it up.

>From what I understand, the ATI aiw is not a good card for TV-in under
linux. I dont think there are any mature drivers (guess).

www.gatos.org

They might be able to help.

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 00:16, Steve and Daphne Martindell wrote:
> I installed an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 7500 agp video card.
> 
> As a video card it runs fine w/ SuSE 8.2.
> 
> When I try to run xawtv I get the following transcript:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /home/stevem/Linux> xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-4GB-athlon)
> can't open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
> no video grabber device available
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Also,
> /home/stevem/Linux> lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> snd-pcm-oss            50144   0  (autoclean)
> snd-mixer-oss          15704   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> videodev                6176   0  (autoclean)
> usbserial              19580   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> parport_pc             28200   1  (autoclean)
> 
> < but no tuner >  ????
> 
> and
> 
> /home/stevem/Linux> modprobe videodev   <--  returns nothing
> 
> ---
> 
> Do I need to create a mount point for /dev/video0?
> 
> The bttv-howto also mentions editting the /etc/modules.conf
> file, but doesn't provide much information. Also talks about
> recompiling the kernel.
> 
> 
>     does anyone know how to get xawtv to work?
> 
>     thanks,
>         -steve
>         smartind at comcast.org
> 
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