RH 8 found my card and "installed" it...

so all i have to do is install xawtv right? and it should work?
when i run xawtv
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This is xawtv-3.43, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18-14)
image format list for port 119
0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
0x32315659 (YV12) planar
0x59565955 (UYVY) packed
0x30323449 (I420) planar
Xv: using port 119 for hw scaling
x11: 1280x1024, 32 bit/pixel, 5120 byte/scanline, DGA
can't open /dev/video: Is a directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
open /dev/video: Is a directory
v4l: open /dev/video: Is a directory
no video grabber device available
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i am assuming RH8 didnt really "install" my card properly?

i run lsmod
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Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
cs46xx 62960 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [cs46xx]
soundcore 6500 3 (autoclean) [cs46xx]
agpgart 42912 3 (autoclean)
NVdriver 1149152 10 (autoclean)
binfmt_misc 7524 1
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 17704 1
mii 2156 0 [8139too]
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14840 1 [iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 2 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 2 (autoclean)
fat 38744 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70400 2
jbd 52212 2 [ext3]

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i am assuming video4linux is not loaded?

what do i do now?

recompile kernel to have support for it?

any help is appreciated. thx

bumb

bumb? anyway...

i guess you're using devfs on your system, hence /dev/video, which is normally a symlnk to /dev/video0, the default device, is acutally a directory containing video0-3 or such like. run v4l-conf with the -c option pointing to /dev/video/video0 or such like, and it should work. i don't know if xawtv will always run v4l-conf itself though, but that should get v4l itself satisfied.

actually xawtv directly supports the -c option too, see the manpage for info

ya thx acid for replying.

i used the command:

xawtv -c /dev/video0

and it works!

going to figure out the remote... now...

reading...sigh *

the manpage does mention that that flag disables xv though, might want -device instead.